how to do it??

[reehan ishaque]

hi folks!
check out the following code...

import java.io.*;
class test1
{
public static void main(String a[])throws Exception
{
BufferedWriter bf = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("c:\\java\\test.txt",true)));
bf.write("r"+'\n'+"r"+'\n'+"r"+'\n'+"r"+'\n'+"r"+'\n'+"r");
bf.flush();
}
}
im creating this file on my disk and writing some text into it. when i opened the file test.txt, there were 6 rs written in it separated by a black dot(representing next line character). i want to have each r printed on new line rather than on 1 line separated by that dot. can u tell me how to do it???. thanx

[Neil Laurance]

windows uses different line termination charaters than UNIX:
windows uses: \r\n
UNIX uses: \n
The BufferedWriter contains the method newLine, which is described in the API as:
A newLine() method is provided, which uses the platform's own notion of line separator as defined by the system property line.separator. Not all platforms use the newline character ('\n') to terminate lines. Calling this method to terminate each output line is therefore preferred to writing a newline character directly.
The API is at:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/io/BufferedWriter.html
Hope this helps. CHeers, Neil

[Neil Laurance]

In addition consider using a PrintWriter instead, then you could do:
pw.println("r");
Which will add the correct end-of-line charcter(s) for your operating system.
Cheers, Neil
[ November 06, 2002: Message edited by: Neil Laurance ]