FileWriter, File Created but no content

[Balaguru Janarthanan]

import java.io.*;
class FileWriterDemo{
public static void main(String arg[])throws IOException{
String source="i still love software";
char buffer[]=new char[source.length()];
source.getChars(0,source.length(),buffer,0);
FileWriter fw =new FileWriter("flie1.txt");
for(int i=0; i<buffer.length;i++){>
System.out.println(buffer[i]);
fw.write(buffer[i]);
}
}
}
I can see new file and empty, no contenet.
Any one pls. help me.

[Seema Das]

Balguru,
The for loop is not contructed properly so the write statement is actually outside the loop.
But the truth is you don't need a for loop since Writer class has write method that takes a character array as its argument. So just use fw.write(buffer). and then you need to close the object (fw.close()) only then the array will be written to the file.
hth
Seema

[sai challa]

Originally posted by Balaguru Janarthanan:
import java.io.*;
class FileWriterDemo{
public static void main(String arg[])throws IOException{
String source="i still love software";
char buffer[]=new char[source.length()];
source.getChars(0,source.length(),buffer,0);
FileWriter fw =new FileWriter("flie1.txt");
for(int i=0; i<buffer.length;i++){>
System.out.println(buffer[i]);
fw.write(buffer[i]);
}
}
}
I can see new file and empty, no contenet.
Any one pls. help me.

You can modify your for loop:
for(int i=0;i<buffer.length;i++)>
{
System.out.println(buffer[i]);
fw.write(buffer[i]);
fw.flush();
}
The flush() method ensures that any character present in the FileWriter fw is written to the file "flie1.txt".