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

You should consider flushing your stream after each write. Try something like this:

try{
    //your code
    out.write("" + i + ", " + red + ", " + green + ", " + blue
            + ", " + (.21 * red + .71 * green + 0.08 * blue + "\n"));
    i++;
}finally{
    //Close the stream
    out.close();
}

Also you should make sure that you close your stream at the end of your operation. A good way to structure your program might be this:

Random generator = new Random();
float red = 0, green = 0, blue = 0;
int i = 0;

Writer out = null;

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

    while (i < 1000) {
        //your logic
        if (red < 256 && blue < 256 && green < 256) {
                out.write("" + i + ", " + red + ", " + green + ", " + blue
                        + ", " + (.21 * red + .71 * green + 0.08 * blue + "\n"));
                i++;
        }
    }
}finally{
    if(out != null){
        out.close();
    }
}