Java Programming for Beginners

The FileWriter class

The FileWriter class and its usage could be explained as follows:

1. Let's declare a new FileWriter class, and for reasons that will become apparent a little later on, let's explicitly set this FileWriter class to null:

        public class WritingToFiles { 
            public static void main(String[] args) { 
                FileWriter out = null; 

2. Once we do this, we can go ahead and instantiate it. In order to write to a file, we're going to need to know two important things:
   • First, of course, we'll need to know what to write to the file
   • Second, our FileWriter class will need to know what file it should write to

3. When we use a FileWriter class, we associate it with a specific file, so we pass into its constructor the name of the file we would like ...