Writing to a text file *Resolved*

[mbonfyre]

This section of code writes the contents of a variable to a text file:

   

			//writes contents of TADisplay to a text file 
			try {

			File  File2  =  new   File("applications.txt");

			FileOutputStream  outpFile2  =  new  FileOutputStream(File2);
			DataOutputStream  outp  =  new  DataOutputStream(outpFile2);

			{
				outp.writeUTF(s);	}	

				outp.close();

			}
		
			catch (IOException  ex) {
				System.out.println(ex);
				}

that works fine - but what i wish to do now is next time the application runs, save the next contents of the variable AS WELL as the one that is already in the text file. At the moment it overwrites it.

Any suggestions?

[crptcblade]

FileOutputStream  outpFile2  =  new  FileOutputStream(File2);

Change this line to...

FileOutputStream  outpFile2  =  new  FileOutputStream("applications.txt", true);

That will append the new data to the end of the file.

[mbonfyre]

thanks for that - it was just the job!