Java, A Beginner's Guide, 5th Edition, 5th Edition

File I/O Using Character Streams

Although byte-oriented file handling is the most common, it is possible to use character-based streams for this purpose. The advantage to the character streams is that they operate directly on Unicode characters. Thus, if you want to store Unicode text, the character streams are certainly your best option. In general, to perform character-based file I/O, you will use the FileReader and FileWriter classes.

Using a FileWriter

FileWriter creates a Writer that you can use to write to a file. Its most commonly used constructors are shown here:

FileWriter(String fileName) throws IOException

FileWriter(String fileName, boolean append) throws IOException

Here, fileName is the full path name of a file. If append is true ...