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

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Opening a file for writing

will cause the existing file

data to be deleted.If you

intend to add new data to

a file while maintaining

the original contents,open

the file for appending.

COMMON ERROR

TRAP

11.4 Reading Structured Text Files 767

writing to it. If the file output.txt exists, we will start writing at the end of

its current contents, whereas if the file does not exist, it will be created.

In this program, we append four additional lines to the file (lines 21–29).

Assuming that before this program is executed, the file output.txt contains

the poem shown in Figure 11.14, then after this program is executed, the

file output.txt will contain the te