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Writing Readable Text to a File Using Streams

 
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I have a simple question about Java file i/o. I want to write strings to a file such that what is in the string is all that is written to the file.
I've been using an ObjectOutputStream.writeUTF()/writeChars(), but doing so writes size information before each string or character, and the size information appears as nonsense characters when you open the file.
What object/ method do I want to use instead?
 
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Use a PrintWriter object and use println(). You can find the API here
 
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