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class:BufferedWriter [NONE]
  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    Closeable, Flushable, Appendable, AutoCloseable 
    public class BufferedWriter
extends Writer
    Writes text to a character-output stream, buffering characters so as to provide for the efficient writing of single characters, arrays, and strings.

    The buffer size may be specified, or the default size may be accepted. The default is large enough for most purposes.

    A newLine() method is provided, which uses the platform's own notion of line separator as defined by the system property line.separator. Not all platforms use the newline character ('\n') to terminate lines. Calling this method to terminate each output line is therefore preferred to writing a newline character directly.

    In general, a Writer sends its output immediately to the underlying character or byte stream. Unless prompt output is required, it is advisable to wrap a BufferedWriter around any Writer whose write() operations may be costly, such as FileWriters and OutputStreamWriters. For example,

     PrintWriter out
   = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("foo.out")));
    will buffer the PrintWriter's output to the file. Without buffering, each invocation of a print() method would cause characters to be converted into bytes that would then be written immediately to the file, which can be very inefficient.

    Since:
    1.1
    See Also:
    PrintWriter, FileWriter, OutputStreamWriter, Files.newBufferedWriter(java.nio.file.Path, java.nio.charset.Charset, java.nio.file.OpenOption...)

constructor:<init>(java.io.Writer) [NONE]

  • BufferedWriter

    public BufferedWriter​(Writer out)
    Creates a buffered character-output stream that uses a default-sized output buffer.
    Parameters:
    out - A Writer

constructor:<init>(java.io.Writer,int) [NONE]

  • BufferedWriter

    public BufferedWriter​(Writer out,
                      int sz)
    Creates a new buffered character-output stream that uses an output buffer of the given size.
    Parameters:
    out - A Writer
    sz - Output-buffer size, a positive integer
    Throws:
    IllegalArgumentException - If sz <= 0

method:write(int) [NONE]

  • write

    public void write​(int c)
           throws IOException
    Writes a single character.
    Overrides:
    write in class Writer
    Parameters:
    c - int specifying a character to be written
    Throws:
    IOException - If an I/O error occurs

method:write(char[],int,int) [NONE]

  • write

    public void write​(char[] cbuf,
                  int off,
                  int len)
           throws IOException
    Writes a portion of an array of characters.

    Ordinarily this method stores characters from the given array into this stream's buffer, flushing the buffer to the underlying stream as needed. If the requested length is at least as large as the buffer, however, then this method will flush the buffer and write the characters directly to the underlying stream. Thus redundant BufferedWriters will not copy data unnecessarily.

    Specified by:
    write in class Writer
    Parameters:
    cbuf - A character array
    off - Offset from which to start reading characters
    len - Number of characters to write
    Throws:
    IndexOutOfBoundsException - If off is negative, or len is negative, or off + len is negative or greater than the length of the given array
    IOException - If an I/O error occurs

method:write(java.lang.String,int,int) [NONE]

  • write

    public void write​(String s,
                  int off,
                  int len)
           throws IOException
    Writes a portion of a String.
    Overrides:
    write in class Writer
    Implementation Requirements:
    While the specification of this method in the superclass recommends that an IndexOutOfBoundsException be thrown if len is negative or off + len is negative, the implementation in this class does not throw such an exception in these cases but instead simply writes no characters.
    Parameters:
    s - String to be written
    off - Offset from which to start reading characters
    len - Number of characters to be written
    Throws:
    IndexOutOfBoundsException - If off is negative, or off + len is greater than the length of the given string
    IOException - If an I/O error occurs

method:newLine() [NONE]

  • newLine

    public void newLine()
             throws IOException
    Writes a line separator. The line separator string is defined by the system property line.separator, and is not necessarily a single newline ('\n') character.
    Throws:
    IOException - If an I/O error occurs

method:flush() [NONE]

method:close() [NONE]

  • close

    public void close()
           throws IOException
    Description copied from class: Writer
    Closes the stream, flushing it first. Once the stream has been closed, further write() or flush() invocations will cause an IOException to be thrown. Closing a previously closed stream has no effect.
    Specified by:
    close in interface AutoCloseable
    Specified by:
    close in interface Closeable
    Specified by:
    close in class Writer
    Throws:
    IOException - If an I/O error occurs

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