Writer
(Review: ) IO streams are either character-oriented or byte-oriented.
Character-oriented IO is specialized for handling character data.
Byte-oriented IO is general purpose IO that involves
all types of data.
This chapter does character-oriented output to a disk file
and uses a Writer
stream.
What class should be used for writing to a file?
A class that descends from Writer
is what you want.
You can look under Writer
in the Java documentation for
to find the class you need.
Do that now, on your own hard disk
if you can.
Find a class that might be good for writing to a disk file.
Does the class FileWriter
look like a likely candidate?