writing to a file

[Peter Phung]

Can anyone tell me how i can write a string to a file?
I've already got

 InputStream in = saveTable.getText();
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(f);
int counter = 0;
while (true) {
    int bytes = in.read(buffer);
    if (bytes < 0) {
break;
    }
    out.write(buffer, 0, bytes);
    counter += bytes;
} 

but clearly in is an InputStream and saveTable.getText(); is a string. How can i get around this?

[Aleksey Matiychenko]

You do not need InputStream in this case at all. You just write a string. Check the methods on FileOutputStream.

[Chris Stehno]

Better yet, if you are only writing character data, you should use Writers, specifically the BufferedWriter...
String text = "This is text to write to file.";
File = new File("yourfile.whatever");
FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file);
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(fw);
writer.write(text);
writer.close();
FileWriter will do this by itself, but the BufferedWriter povides some buffering for more efficiency.
Hope this helps.