write newline into a file

Question

considering the following function

private static void GetText(String nodeValue) throws IOException {

   if(!file3.exists()) {
       file3.createNewFile();
   }

   FileOutputStream fop=new FileOutputStream(file3,true);
   if(nodeValue!=null)
       fop.write(nodeValue.getBytes());

   fop.flush();
   fop.close();

}

what to add to make it to write each time in the next line?

for example i want each words of a given string in a seperate lline for example:

i am mostafa

writes as:

 i
 am
 mostafa

Answer 1

To write text (rather than raw bytes) to a file you should consider using FileWriter. You should also wrap it in a BufferedWriter which will then give you the newLine method.

To write each word on a new line, use String.split to break your text into an array of words.

So here's a simple test of your requirement:

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    String nodeValue = "i am mostafa";

    // you want to output to file
    // BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file3, true));
    // but let's print to console while debugging
    BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.out));

    String[] words = nodeValue.split(" ");
    for (String word: words) {
        writer.write(word);
        writer.newLine();
    }
    writer.close();
}

The output is:

i
am
mostafa