PrintWriter grief

[groovicus]

Ok, I'm dumping results to a text file via PrintWriter...

The problem is that each line I write to my text file overwrites the previous, so all I end up with is the final result... the Java Sun forums are unfortunately not helping.

        File logFile = new File("C:/Correlate.log");
        FileOutputStream logFileStream = new FileOutputStream (logFile);
        PrintWriter writeFile = new PrintWriter (logFileStream);
    
        
        try
        {
             if(writeFlag == 1)
             {  
                //writeFile.println("\n\n"); 
                writeFile.println(noSignature);
                writeFile.println(Correlate.getFile() + "\r\n");
             }
        }
        
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println("Crap...oooops!!");
        }
        
        writeFile.close();
    }

I've used the carriage returns...what am I missing? My other alternative is to use BufferedWriter, but for some reason that's not being recognized...

Grrr....lol

[groovicus]

Just as a mindless aside, whenever I have a problem, or when I lose something... as soon as I ask, or buy a new whatever that I lost, I find it.

So if anybody cares, in order to make the lines show up one after another, one of the lines needs to be changed....DOH!!!

        File logFile = new File("C:/Correlate.log");
        FileOutputStream logFileStream = new FileOutputStream (logFile, true);  <--  added true
        PrintWriter writeFile = new PrintWriter (logFileStream);

If you do it like I did in the first example, every time you try to write to the file, it creates a new file... who knew??!!!

Now if I could just drill down through my directories like I want

[SwordFish_13]

hi

The problem is that each line I write to my text file overwrites the previous,
so all I end up with is the final result...

what happned to use the append() method.

 
f = new File("myFile.txt")
f.append("Hello World\n")
f.append("Hello again, that's me!")

[groovicus]

what happned to use the append() method.

Actually, I didn't know one could use it that way. I'll tuck that info away for future reference though.