Clear contents of a file in Java using RandomAccessFile

Question

I am trying to clear the contents of a file I made in java. The file is created by a PrintWriter call. I read here that one can use RandomAccessFile to do so, and read somewhe

Answer 1

You'll be lucky if opening the file twice at the same time works. It isn't specified to work by Java.

What you should do is close the PrintWriter and open a new one without the 'append' parameter, or with 'append' set to 'false'.