FileWriter in java not writing to txt file [duplicate]

Answer 1

Buffered writers will only write out when they're full or when they're being closed (hence the name Buffered).

So you can do this:

out.close();

which will flush the buffer and then close it. If you only wanted to flush it but keep it open for further writes (e.g. imagine you're writing a log file), you could do:

out.flush();

You'd likely want to do this when finishing up with such a resource. e.g.

BufferedWriter out = ...
try {
   out.write(...);
}
catch (Exception e) {
   // ..
}
finally {
   out.close();
}

Or possibly using the try-with-resources constructs in Java 7, which (frankly) is more reliable to write code around.

Answer 2

The Java 7 version with the try() closing automatically.

try (BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(
        new FileWriter("/Users/AlecStanton/Desktop/name.txt"))) {
    out.write(playername);
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Mind the left-out / after .txt.

Answer 3

You should close your writer in a finally block.

BufferedWriter out = null;

try {
    out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("/Users/AlecStanton/Desktop/name.txt/"));
    out.write(playername);
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
    try {
        if(out != null){
            out.close();
        } else {
            System.out.println("Buffer has not been initialized!");
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}