Printing everything on same line

Question

Hi all,
I want to write text on a text File in a formatted manner, such that there is line break after every line.The problem I am facing is that it print everything on same line. When we use "/n" it generates a dummy character. We are using FileWriter
String s="Hello"+"\n"+"Everybody";
FileWriter f=new FileWriter("abc.txt",true);
f.write(s);
f.close();
I want every time this code is runs it should print sentences on different line.

Answer 1

Then I would recommend that you wrap a PrintWriter around your FileWriter and use its methods named println(), then you won't have to worry about newlines yourself. Since a newline is different depending on what OS you run your program on, that is a safer approach than just typing "\n" (which only works as newlines on Unix type OS's btw, on Windows it comes out as garbage when viewd in for example Notepad since Windows uses "\r\n" for newline)
Like this (reusing your code)
FileWriter fw = new FileWriter("abc.txt",true);
PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(fw);
pw.println("Hello");
pw.println("Everybody");
pw.close();Another alternative is to use System.getProperty("line.separator") instead of "\n" to make it work on all platforms.
HTH,
Fredrik