Writing multiline JTextArea content into file

Question

I have to write the content of textarea into a file with line breaks. I got the output like, it is written as one string in the file.

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Answer 1

Use JTextComponent.write(Writer):

Stores the contents of the model into the given stream. By default this will store the model as plain text.

E.G.

BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("filename.txt"));
text.write(writer);