How to Write text file Java

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I think your expectations and reality don’t match (but when do they ever ;))

Basically, where you think the file is written and where the file is actually written are not equal (hmmm, perhaps I should write an if statement ;))

public class TestWriteFile {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        BufferedWriter writer = null;
        try {
            //create a temporary file
            String timeLog = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
            File logFile = new File(timeLog);

            // This will output the full path where the file will be written to...
            System.out.println(logFile.getCanonicalPath());

            writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(logFile));
            writer.write("Hello world!");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                // Close the writer regardless of what happens...
                writer.close();
            } catch (Exception e) {
            }
        }
    }
}

Also note that your example will overwrite any existing files. If you want to append the text to the file you should do the following instead:

writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(logFile, true));

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