writing a newline char into a text file

[samuel higgins]

using the FileWriter class, how to you write a newline into a text file? I tried \n but in the text file i just get a little black box.
thanks.

[Michael Morris]

Wrap the FileWriter in a BufferedWriter and use the newLine() method. Something like this:

    BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("myFile"));
    writer.write(someString, 0, someString.lenght());
    writer.newLine();
   ...

[ April 21, 2003: Message edited by: Michael Morris ]

[Francis Siu]

hi samuel
I have another method/suggestion to reference

 
File file=new File("test.txt");
try
{
  FileWriter fw=new FileWrite(file);
  PrintWriter pw=new PrintWriter(fw);
  pw.println("Hello Moose");
}
catch(IOException ioE)
{
  ioE.printStackTrace();
}
finally
{
  pw.close();
}
 

I hope that I can answer your question
if you want to append the text to the text file
please post a message again