writing to a file problem [duplicate]

Question

I am using this code to write to a file in java. it has always worked and I am 100% sure its right. But still the file does not get written. I don't even get an error.

import java.io.BufferedWriter;   
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;

public class writetofile {

    public static void main(String [] args){

        FileWriter fw;

        try {
            fw = new FileWriter("testfile.txt");

            BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw);

            bw.write("this is test");

            bw.write("this is test");
            bw.write("this is test");


        } catch (IOException e) {

            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
}

Could it be some other problem?

Answer 1

You are not calling the close() method on the BufferedWriter object. That means the buffers never get flushed. Add bw.close() after your last bw.write() statements.

Answer 2

try fw.flush() and fw.close()