Thread: Overwriting txt file

Hi again, I now have the problem that when I write something in a text file, the next time I write something in that same text file, the original text is overwritten. Here is the relevant code:

BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(dir + "username.txt")); 
    			    	out.newLine();
    			    	out.write(username); 
    			    	out.close();

So as you can see, each the the FileWriter writes something, it should first go to a new line. However, it doesn't, and instead replaces the contents of the file with the statement it's suppose to write.

If you wish to append to a file, use the FileWriter constructor that accepts a boolean with true for append
See: FileWriter

FileWriter

The FileWriter is a class used for writing character files. The constructors of this class assume that the default character encoding and the default byte-buffer size are acceptable. This constructor simply overwrite the contents in the file by the specified string but if you put the boolean value as true with the file name (argument of the constructor) then the constructor append the specified data to the file i.e. the pre-exist data in a file is not overwritten and the new data is appended after the pre-exist data.

import java.io.*;
class FileWrite 
{
   public static void main(String args[])
  {
      try{
    // Create file 
    FileWriter fstream = new FileWriter("out.txt",true);
        BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(fstream);
    out.write("Hello Java");
    //Close the output stream
    out.close();
    }catch (Exception e){//Catch exception if any
      System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
    }
  }
}