How do I create and write data into text file?

Date: 2010-09-16. Category: Java I/O examples. Hits: 129K time(s).

Here is an example code to create a text file an put some contents in it. This program will create a file called write.txt.

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;

public class WriteTextFileExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Writer writer = null;

        try {
            String text = "This is a text file";

            File file = new File("write.txt");
            writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));
            writer.write(text);
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                if (writer != null) {
                    writer.close();
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
}

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