I am creating a file in java using
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(FileName)); StringBuffer sb=new StringBuffer(); sb.append("\n"); sb.append("work"); out.write(sb.toString()); out.close(); But this file is getting created inside the bin folder of my server.I would like to create this file inside a user-defined folder.
How can it be achieved.
I would like to create this file inside a user-defined folder.
The simplest approach is to specify a fully qualified path name. You could select that as a File and build a new File relative to it:
File directory = new File("/home/jon/somewhere"); File fullPath = new File(directory, fileName); BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter( new OutputStreamWriter( (new FileOutputStream(fullPath), charSet)); try { writer.write("\n"); writer.write("work"); } finally { writer.close(); } Note:
FileOutputStream wrapped in an OutputStreamWriter instead of using FileWriter, as you can't specify an encoding with FileWritertry/finally block (or try-with-resources in Java 7) so that you always close the writer even if there's an exception.
directory.mkdirs() between the first and second lines...To create a file in a specific directory, you need to specify it in the file name.
Otherwise it will use the current working directory which is likely to be where the program was started from.
BTW: Unless you are using Java 1.4 or older, you can use StringBuilder instead of StringBuffer, although in this case PrintWriter would be even better.
