File I/O: Reading from one file and writing to another (Java)

Question

I\'m currently working on a lab in my cpe class and we have to create a simple program that scans in strings from a .txt file and prints them to a different .txt file. So fa

Answer 1

May be you are just forget the flush()

       try {
            File input = new File("input");
            File output = new File("output");
            Scanner sc = new Scanner(input);
            PrintWriter printer = new PrintWriter(output);
            while (sc.hasNextLine()) {
                String s = sc.nextLine();
                printer.write(s);
            }
            **printer.flush();**
        }
        catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            System.err.println("File not found. Please scan in new file.");
        }