CHAPTER 83 — Writing Text Files

This chapter explains how to create a text file
on the hard disk and how to write character data
to it.

Chapter Topics:

• Class FileWriter.
• Creating a disk file.
• Closing a disk file.
• The write() method.
• Catching IO exceptions.
• Class BufferedWriter.

In a previous chapter you used
command line redirection
to write text files.
This told the operating system to
create a file and to send your program’s output to it.
In this chapter your program has control of file creation and
writes output to it.