Groovy write to file (newline)

Question

I created a small function that simply writes text to a file, but I am having issues making it write each piece of information to a new line. Can someone explain why it puts

Answer 1

Might be cleaner to use PrintWriter and its method println.
Just make sure you close the writer when you're done

Answer 2

As @Steven points out, a better way would be:

public void writeToFile(def directory, def fileName, def extension, def infoList) {
  new File("$directory/$fileName$extension").withWriter { out ->
    infoList.each {
      out.println it
    }
  }
}

As this handles the line separator for you, and handles closing the writer as well

(and doesn't open and close the file each time you write a line, which could be slow in your original version)

Answer 3

I came across this question and inspired by other contributors. I need to append some content to a file once per line. Here is what I did.

class Doh {
   def ln = System.getProperty('line.separator')
   File file //assume it's initialized 

   void append(String content) {
       file << "$content$ln"
   }
}

Pretty neat I think :)

Answer 4

@Comment for ID:14. It's for me rather easier to write:

out.append it

instead of

out.println it

println did on my machine only write the first file of the ArrayList, with append I get the whole List written into the file.

Kindly anyway for the quick-and-dirty-solution.

Answer 5

It looks to me, like you're working in windows in which case a new line character in not simply \n but rather \r\n

You can always get the correct new line character through System.getProperty("line.separator") for example.