Writing to file more problems

Question

I'm back... heh well now that i fixed my If statement im trying to actually write to the file, but it doesnt seem to be working... heres what i got.
public static void main (String args[])throws Exception{
Scanner in = new Scanner(new FileReader("H:/squeeze.txt"));
FileWriter out = new FileWriter("squeeze.txt");
int linecount = 0;
String line;
while(in.hasNextLine()){
line = in.nextLine();
linecount = linecount + 1;
System.out.println(""+line);
if (line.startsWith("Lisa")){
String dltspace = "balls";
out.write(dltspace, linecount, dltspace.length());
linecount = linecount - 1;
out.close();
}Now what the program is actually suppost to do is delete the spaces in front of some of the sentances. But just to experiment with it im trying to put the word balls where the word Lisa is. But nothing happens.

Answer 1

From the API Docs:
replace(CharSequence target, CharSequence replacement)
Replaces each substring of this string that matches the literal target sequence with the specified literal replacement sequence.
so:
myNewString = myString.replace("Lisa", "balls");Remember the resulting sting is not in myString upon completion, it's the value returned from the method. I believe it's also case sensitive, so "Lisa" and "lisa" are not the same.