BufferedWriter is acting strange

Question

I am trying to make a game with a working highscore mechanism and I am using java.io.BufferedWriter to write to a highscore file. I don\'t have an encryption on the highscor

Answer 1

Please use writer.write(String.valueOf(score)); otherwise it writes score as a character. See the documentation:

Writes a single character. The character to be written is contained in the 16 low-order bits of the given integer value; the 16 high-order bits are ignored.

What you want to use is Writer.write(String); convert score to a String using String.valueOf or Integer.toString.

writer.write(String.valueOf(score));

Answer 2

BufferedWriter is attempting to write a series of bytes to the file, not numbers. A number is still a character.

Consider using FileWriter instead, and something as simple as: fileWriter.write(Integer.toString(score)) Write takes a string here, but the output should be the same.

Answer 3

BufferedWriter.write(int) is meant to write a single charecter, not a integer.

public void write(int c)
throws IOException

Writes a single character.

Overrides: write in class Writer
Parameters: c - int specifying a character to be written
Throws: IOException - If an I/O error occurs

Try

writer.write(String.valueOf(score));