Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition

11.3 Reading and Writing Text Files 765

method, rather than appending a“\n”to our String, because the line separator

can be different on different platforms. This makes our code more portable. At

lines 24–29, we write three more lines of text and three more line separators.

At line 32, we call the close method to release the BufferedWriter resources.

Any further attempt to write to the file using the bw object reference will

result in an IOException being thrown (and caught at line 36). The catch

block at lines 36–39 uses an IOException as its parameter, which also

matches the type of exception thrown by the FileWriter constructor and the

write method. ...