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From: Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:44:34 +0000
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On 12/12/11 15:12, Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote:
>> On 12/12/11 14:42, Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote:
>>
>>> outFile.write(String.valueOf(list[i]+"\n"));
>>
>> Do you something against the PrintWriter.println(String) method?
>
> Well, in some code I'd written previous, I used .write instead of
> .println. When I actually tried .println, the output I got was as
> such:
>
> file1.txt
> <space>
> file2.txt
> <space>
> file3.txt
> <space>
> <space>
>
> Not so pretty right?

> when using .write, I get:
>
> file1.txt
> file2.txt
> file3.txt
> <space>
>
> Which is exactly what I want. I asked this of another person as well.
> I naturally though println would give me nice clean output as in my
> second example. But it didn't. When I used .write, it did. So, I'm
> sticking with .write. Do you have any idea why println would give me
> such spaced output?

If you append a "\n" to the filename that is what you'll get. println() 
prints a line of output with a line terminator. Hence there is no need 
to append a "\n". That saves both processing time (concatenating Strings 
is relatively slow) and unnecessary coding.

-- 
Nigel Wade