Writing header line to csv

[Kat Mackay]

I'm sure there is a very simple way to do this but I am currently trying to use file.write

  file.write("Acc","emPAI (all replicates plus Progenesis)","","","","","","","","","","","","APEX (all replicates plus Progenesis)","","","","","","","","","","","","Spectral Counts (from Progenesis)","","","","","","","","","","Intensity (from Progenesis)","","","","","","","","","","");  

using the commas to denote the separate cells I want in the csv file. However this is not compiling - I get a 'not applicable argument' error from Eclipse.

Many thanks

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

Welcome to JavaRanch

I dont know what you are tying to do. but if you are trying to do something with csv file then, consider *opencsv*. google for more detail

[Lester Burnham]

As it is, you're passing many, many parameters to file.write - when it actually only takes a single one. What you need to do is to escape the double quotes, so that they don't get interpreted by the Java compiler. Every double quote (except for the very first and the very last) must be preceded by a backslash. So the parameter would start as "Acc\",\"emPAI (al.....