bufferedwriter stops in the middle of writing

Question

For some reason this code results in a truncated text.txt file. It should (according to me) write out 1000 results, but the output file has various amounts of lines (dependi

Answer 1

Two things.

1. Flush the stream
2. Close the stream

Try something like:

 Writer out = null;
 try {
    out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("test.txt"),16*1024);

    // Write some stuff

    out.flush();
 } finally {
    try {
        out.close();
    } catch (Exception exp) {
    }
}

Try and remember, it's a "buffer". That means that it's keeping stuff stored in memory until it decides it needs to be written or your explicitly ask it to "flush" it's contents.

Also, you should always close your streams. This prevents possible locked file issues and file handle issues :P