Output to .txt file overwriting.

Question

Hi
I am trying to output to a .txt file with the below method that's called from a for loop that loops through a String array. Unfortunately it only writes to the first line over and over again so my .txt final ends up with the final element of the array and nothing else. Could anyone please suggest how this could be fixed.
  static void writeArray (String combinedFileNameAndNumber){
    try{
      File destfile = new File(pathName, destFileName);
      FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(destfile);
      BufferedWriter fileOutput = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter);
      fileOutput.write(combinedFileNameAndNumber,0,combinedFileNameAndNumber.length());
      fileOutput.write("\n");
      fileOutput.flush();
      fileWriter.close();
    }catch(IOException e){
      System.out.println("IO Error in write method");
  }Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

THe line separator is different on different platforms, on unix systems it's "\n" but on windows it's "\r\n". You can use System.getProperty("line.separator") to find the correct separator string.
But you don't need that because you are using BufferedWriter, there's a method called newLine that does exactly what you want. Just instead of      fileOutput.write("\n");write      fileOutput.newLine();