Writing a string array to file using Java - separate lines

Question

I\'m writing a program that writes sets of observations in the form of a String array (from User input) to file. I am able to write an observation to a .txt file and then ad

Answer 1

You need to push a line separator into the buffer.

newLine();

Here's the code

for(int i = 0; i < observation.length; i++) {
  try (BufferedWriter bw 
        = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("birdobservations.txt", true))) {
    String s;
    s = observation[i];
    bw.write(s);
    bw.newLine();
    bw.flush();
  } catch(IOException ex) { 
    ex.printStackTrace();
  }
}