Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

How to do it...

1. Import the File.separator constant and assign an alias to it:

import java.io.File.separator as SEPARATOR

2. Specify the path to the new file we are going to create:

val fileName = "src${SEPARATOR}main${SEPARATOR}resources${SEPARATOR}temp_file"

3. Instantiate the file using the specified file path:

val fileName = "src${SEPARATOR}main${SEPARATOR}resources${SEPARATOR}temp_file"val file = File(fileName)

4. Write the text to the file using the writeText() function inside the apply block:

val fileName = "src${SEPARATOR}main${SEPARATOR}resources${SEPARATOR}temp_file"val file = File(fileName)file.apply {    val text =        "\"No one in the brief history of computing " +          "has ever written a piece of perfect software. " +          "It's unlikely that ...