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Re: Diff. between FileWriter("f.txt") and OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("f.txt")) ?

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Jochen Brenzlinger wrote:
> As you know there are two ways of writing text into a text file:

Well, there are more than two ways, but that's not relevant to your question, really.

> 1.) BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("MyFile.txt")));
>     out.write(s);
> 
> and
> 
> 2.) BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("MyFile.txt"));
>     out.write(s);
> 
> Whats the difference?

The second one is rather more compact and easy for a human to read.  The docs for FileWriter
<http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/FileWriter.html>
suggest when you'd rather use the first one.

-- 
Lew

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Diff. between FileWriter("f.txt") and OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("f.txt")) ? jochen2@brenz.com (Jochen Brenzlinger) - 2011-08-26 04:52 +0000
  Re: Diff. between FileWriter("f.txt") and OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("f.txt")) ? Silvio <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-08-26 09:22 +0200
  Re: Diff. between FileWriter("f.txt") and OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("f.txt")) ? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-26 00:54 -0700
  Re: Diff. between FileWriter("f.txt") and OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("f.txt")) ? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-31 14:13 -0700
  Re: Diff. between FileWriter("f.txt") and OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("f.txt")) ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-05 21:17 -0400
  Re: Diff. between FileWriter("f.txt") and OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("f.txt")) ? Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2011-09-06 11:34 +0200
  Re: Diff. between FileWriter("f.txt") and OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("f.txt")) ? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-06 06:53 -0700

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