[5141] in java-interest
Re: Problems on append a exist file.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mete Senocak)
Tue Jan 30 04:18:39 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:26:58 -0800
From: Mete Senocak <msenocak@arachnid.microweb.com>
To: mark@hactl.com.hk
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
Hi Mark:
mark@hactl.com.hk wrote:
>
> Hi, everybody,
>
> I am now writing a Java application (not applet) for file management.
> The problem I meet is I can not append new line to the exist file.
> Each time I create a FileOutputStream, it overwrite the exist file.
> Could someone please tell me how to append a file? Thanks a lot!
>
> regards,
>
> Mark
> -
Without looking at your code, let me ask this: Did you place your file
pointer at the end of the file before writing to the file? If not, that
explains the cause of your problem.
This will put the pointer at the end of your file:
yourFile.seek(yourFile.length());
Good luck,
- Mete
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