To read a text file with a specific encoding you can use a FileInputStream in conjunction with a InputStreamReader. The right Java encoding for Windows ANSI is Cp1252. reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(csvFile), “Cp1252”)); To write a text file with a specific character encoding you can use a FileOutputStream together with a OutputStreamWriter. writer … Read more
Rather than reinventing the wheel you could have a look at OpenCSV which supports reading and writing of CSV files. Here are examples of reading & writing
Like others said, you can just loop over the array and print out the elements one by one. To make the output show up as numbers instead of “letters and symbols” you were seeing, you need to convert each element to a string. So your code becomes something like this: public static void write (String … Read more
You need to close your OutputStream which will flush the remainder of your data: out.close(); The default buffer size for BufferedWriter is 8192 characters, large enough to easily hold hundreds of lines of unwritten data.