Question

I know this question has been asked a million times and I have seen a million solutions but none that work for me. I have a hashet that I want to write to a file but I want each element in the Hashset in a separate line.
Here is my code:

    Collection<String> similar4 = new HashSet<String>(file268List);
    Collection <String> different4 = new HashSet<String>();
    different4.addAll(file268List);
    different4.addAll(sqlFileList);

    similar4.retainAll(sqlFileList);
    different4.removeAll(similar4);


    Iterator hashSetIterator = different.iterator();
    while(hashSetIterator.hasNext()){
        System.out.println(hashSetIterator.next());
    }
    ObjectOutputStream writer = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("HashSet.txt"));
    while(hashSetIterator.hasNext()){
        Object o = hashSetIterator.next();
        writer.writeObject(o);
    }

Answer 1

Where you got it wrong is that you are trying to serialize the strings instead of just printing them to the file, exactly the same way you print them to the screen:

PrintStream out = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream("HashSet.txt")));
Iterator hashSetIterator = different.iterator();
while(hashSetIterator.hasNext()){
    out.println(hashSetIterator.next());
}