I’ve been reading books in Java just to find a code on how to update a file just to append a text in it. A lot of code fragments on Java File available but it just give you how to write a file alone, and or how to read a file alone. This article will help you to create at the same time append a text to an existing file.

Here’s a sample of simple and short Java code to create (if not created) and append a file if existing.

public void createOrAppendFile (File f, String text) throws IOException {
 BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter (new FileWriter (File, true));
 bw.write (text);
 bw.newLine();
 bw.flush();
 bw.close();
}

3 Responses to “How to update a file in Java?”

  1. soujanya Says:

    i have a file with different columns and ten records. if i want to update the record no.5 then do i need delete the whole file. if so what about my other 9 records which got inserted automatically from my jsp page.

  2. Daniel Davies Says:

    Mate thankyou so so so much you cannot now how much I needed this

    Your a genius

    Cheers

    Dan

  3. Alok Yadav Says:

    thanks a lot yaar.it really helped me.


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