how to delete the content of text file without deleting itself

Question

I want to copy the content of file \'A\' to file \'B\'. after the copying is done I want to clear the content of file \'A\' and want to write on it from its beginning. I can

Answer 1

With try-with-resources writer will be automatically closed:

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
final File file = new File("SomeFile");
try (PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(file))  {
    writer.print(StringUtils.EMPTY);                
}
// here we can be sure that writer will be closed automatically