printing a new line to file

[jam hall]

When using a PrintWriter object to print a report to file the \n(new line) control character doesn't seem to do anything but \t(tab) does.

Is there another way to print a new line?

Thanks ahead

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

What's wrong with calling the println() method?

[Julien Grenier]

I'm guessing you are on windows. The newlines in windows are form with 2 caracters the \n and the \r so you need to write both like this \n\r to produce a new line.

[Layne Lund]

Since the end-of-line sequence varies between different operating systems, you should use the following to make your program system-independent.

String newline = System.getProperty("line.separator");

Now the variable called newline contains the system-dependant end-of-line sequence. The Java API may have a static variable that serves the same purpose hiding somewhere, but I was unable to find it.

HTH

Layne