Question

I’m trying to figure out why this doesn’t work. All the files which are shown actually exist. The ‘logging.toString()’ is a .txt file and it reads all the text in the logging and writes it back with the String which I want to be added. Although when I do this, it overwrites it. But I dont want that. Help?

    try{
        FileWriter fstream = new FileWriter(logging.toString());
        BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(fstream);
        FileInputStream fstreams = new FileInputStream(logging);
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fstreams));
        String strLine;
        while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null){
            htmlTextArea = htmlTextArea + strLine + "\n";
        }
        out.write(htmlTextArea + logto);
        out.close();
    } catch (Exception ex){}

Answer 1

Why wouldn’t it? You don’t pass an append flag:

FileWriter(String filename, boolean append)

The API docs are your friend; they’re often helpful for understanding behavior.