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Problem skipping to new line in text file

Posted by Farooq on November 27, 2000 at 4:41 AM

My problem is that while writing to a text file I want to skip to a new line after some text.

In place of newline characters it is printing small boxes[a sign that it doesnt recognize new line]
But it works when I use Tab \t

The code is:

import java.io.*;

public class CharFileIOApp {

public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
FileWriter outStream = new FileWriter("testfile.txt");
String s = "This is a test.\n" + "It will help \n" + " to increase ur aptitude\n";
for(int i=0;i outStream.write(s.charAt(i));
outStream.close();
}

I want the output of this to be like this:

This is a test.
It will help
to increase ur aptitude

But I am getting the output as:

This is a test. It will help to increase ur aptitude

• ur program is correct dear swapnil November 27, 2000 at 7:00 AM (0)