Java Tip: Append a text to a file

Here the simple tip, how to append text to a file.

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import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Date;

/**
 * Append to the file.
 *
 */
public class App 
{
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        try {
            PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("test.txt",true)));
            //PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter("test.txt"); // not the way
            printWriter.printf("Hello, how are you %s day!\n",new Date().toString());
            printWriter.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

In the above code, the true parameter in the FileWriter constructor enable to append to the file instead create new one again.

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