PROBLEM Saving Textfield contents

Question

Hi,
I am new to Java to start with... I am trying to save the contents of various JTextFields in a text file each one at a different line.
So far I have come up with the following:
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try {
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("mcsim.rtf");
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
System.out.println("saving....");
String temp = Frame1.inputName.getText();
System.out.println("saving...." + temp);
oos.writeChars(temp);
String LINE_SEP = System.getProperty("line.separator");
oos.writeObject(LINE_SEP);
oos.writeChars(jTextField3.getText());
fos.flush();
oos.close();
fos.close();
System.out.println("Saved");
catch (IOException f) {
f.printStackTrace();
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BUT
1. I get spaces between the characters in my output file
2. I cannot change line
3. I get some symbols at the start of the line that I do not know how to get rid of them.
Any ideas...
Thanking in advance
Sotirios

Answer 1

I mean: :-)
Don't use an ObjectOutputStream - its for
serialization. Use PrintStream for plain text:
try {
FileOutputStream fos = new
w FileOutputStream("mcsim.rtf");
PrintStream ps = new PrintStream (fos);
System.out.println("saving....");
String temp = Frame1.inputName.getText();
System.out.println("saving...." + temp);
ps.println(temp);
//String LINE_SEP =
= System.getProperty("line.separator");
//oos.writeObject(LINE_SEP);
//oos.writeChars(jTextField3.getText());
ps.flush();
System.out.println("Saved");
catch (IOException f) {
f.printStackTrace();