java.io
Class PrintWriter

java.lang.Object
  java.io.Writer
      java.io.PrintWriter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable , Flushable , Appendable

public class PrintWriter
extends Writer

Prints Print formatted representations of objects to a text-output stream. This class implements all of the print methods found in PrintStream . It does not contain methods for writing raw bytes, for which a program should use unencoded byte streams.

Unlike the PrintStream class, if automatic flushing is enabled it will be done only when one of the println , printf , or format methods is invoked, rather than whenever a newline character happens to be output. These methods use the platform's own notion of line separator rather than the newline character.

Methods in this class never throw I/O exceptions, although some of its constructors may. The client may inquire as to whether any errors have occurred by invoking checkError() .

Since:

JDK1.1

Field Summary
protected   Writer	out           The underlying character-output stream of this PrintWriter.

 

Fields inherited from class java.io. Writer
lock

 

Constructor Summary
PrintWriter ( File  file)           Creates a new PrintWriter, without automatic line flushing, with the specified file.
PrintWriter ( File  file, String  csn)           Creates a new PrintWriter, without automatic line flushing, with the specified file and charset.
PrintWriter ( OutputStream           Creates           Create a new PrintWriter, without automatic line flushing, from an existing OutputStream.
PrintWriter ( OutputStream           Creates           Create a new PrintWriter from an existing OutputStream.
PrintWriter ( String  fileName)           Creates a new PrintWriter, without automatic line flushing, with the specified file name.
PrintWriter ( String  fileName, String  csn)           Creates a new PrintWriter, without automatic line flushing, with the specified file name and charset.
PrintWriter ( Writer           Creates           Create a new PrintWriter, without automatic line flushing.
PrintWriter ( Writer           Creates           Create a new PrintWriter.

 

Method Summary
PrintWriter	append (char c)           Appends the specified character to this writer.
PrintWriter	append ( CharSequence  csq)           Appends the specified character sequence to this writer.
PrintWriter	append ( CharSequence  csq, int start, int end)           Appends a subsequence of the specified character sequence to this writer.
boolean	checkError ()           Flushes           Flush the stream if it's not closed and checks check its error state.
protected  void	clearError close ()           Clears           Close the error state of this stream.
void	close flush ()           Closes           Flush the stream and releases any system resources associated with it. stream.
void	flush ()           Flushes the stream.
PrintWriter	format ( Locale  l, String  format, Object ... args)           Writes a formatted string to this writer using the specified format string and arguments.
PrintWriter	format ( String  format, Object ... args)           Writes a formatted string to this writer using the specified format string and arguments.
void	print (boolean b)           Prints           Print a boolean value.
void	print (char c)           Prints           Print a character.
void	print (char[] s)           Prints           Print an array of characters.
void	print (double d)           Prints           Print a double-precision floating-point number.
void	print (float f)           Prints           Print a floating-point number.
void	print (int i)           Prints           Print an integer.
void	print (long l)           Prints           Print a long integer.
void	print ( Object           Prints           Print an object.
void	print ( String           Prints           Print a string.
PrintWriter	printf ( Locale  l, String  format, Object ... args)           A convenience method to write a formatted string to this writer using the specified format string and arguments.
PrintWriter	printf ( String  format, Object ... args)           A convenience method to write a formatted string to this writer using the specified format string and arguments.
void	println ()           Terminates           Terminate the current line by writing the line separator string.
void	println (boolean x)           Prints           Print a boolean value and then terminates terminate the line.
void	println (char x)           Prints           Print a character and then terminates terminate the line.
void	println (char[] x)           Prints           Print an array of characters and then terminates terminate the line.
void	println (double x)           Prints           Print a double-precision floating-point number and then terminates terminate the line.
void	println (float x)           Prints           Print a floating-point number and then terminates terminate the line.
void	println (int x)           Prints           Print an integer and then terminates terminate the line.
void	println (long x)           Prints           Print a long integer and then terminates terminate the line.
void	println ( Object           Prints           Print an Object and then terminates terminate the line.
void	println ( String           Prints           Print a String and then terminates terminate the line.
protected  void	setError ()           Indicates           Indicate that an error has occurred.
void	write (char[] buf)           Writes           Write an array of characters.
void	write (char[] buf, int off, int len)           Writes           Write A Portion of an array of characters.
void	write (int c)           Writes           Write a single character.
void	write ( String           Writes           Write a string.
void	write ( String           Writes           Write a portion of a string.

 

Methods inherited from class java.lang. Object
clone , equals , finalize , getClass , hashCode , notify , notifyAll , toString , wait , wait , wait

 

Field Detail

out

protected Writer out

The underlying character-output stream of this PrintWriter.

Since:

1.2

PrintWriter

public PrintWriter(Writer out)

Creates Create a new PrintWriter, without automatic line flushing.

Parameters:

out - A character-output stream

PrintWriter

public PrintWriter(Writer out,
                   boolean autoFlush)

Creates Create a new PrintWriter.

Parameters:

out - A character-output stream

autoFlush - A boolean; if true, the println , printf , or format methods will flush the output buffer

PrintWriter

public PrintWriter(OutputStream out)

Creates Create a new PrintWriter, without automatic line flushing, from an existing OutputStream. This convenience constructor creates the necessary intermediate OutputStreamWriter, which will convert characters into bytes using the default character encoding.

Parameters:

out - An output stream

See Also:

OutputStreamWriter.OutputStreamWriter(java.io.OutputStream)

PrintWriter

public PrintWriter(OutputStream out,
                   boolean autoFlush)

Creates Create a new PrintWriter from an existing OutputStream. This convenience constructor creates the necessary intermediate OutputStreamWriter, which will convert characters into bytes using the default character encoding.

Parameters:

out - An output stream

autoFlush - A boolean; if true, the println , printf , or format methods will flush the output buffer

See Also:

OutputStreamWriter.OutputStreamWriter(java.io.OutputStream)

PrintWriter

public PrintWriter(String fileName)
            throws FileNotFoundException

Creates a new PrintWriter, without automatic line flushing, with the specified file name. This convenience constructor creates the necessary intermediate OutputStreamWriter , which will encode characters using the default charset for this instance of the Java virtual machine.

Parameters:

fileName - The name of the file to use as the destination of this writer. If the file exists then it will be truncated to zero size; otherwise, a new file will be created. The output will be written to the file and is buffered.

Throws:

FileNotFoundException - If the given string does not denote an existing, writable regular file and a new regular file of that name cannot be created, or if some other error occurs while opening or creating the file

SecurityException - If a security manager is present and checkWrite(fileName) denies write access to the file

Since:

1.5

PrintWriter

public PrintWriter(String fileName,
                   String csn)
            throws FileNotFoundException,
                   UnsupportedEncodingException

Creates a new PrintWriter, without automatic line flushing, with the specified file name and charset. This convenience constructor creates the necessary intermediate OutputStreamWriter , which will encode characters using the provided charset.

Parameters:

fileName - The name of the file to use as the destination of this writer. If the file exists then it will be truncated to zero size; otherwise, a new file will be created. The output will be written to the file and is buffered.

csn - The name of a supported charset

Throws:

FileNotFoundException - If the given string does not denote an existing, writable regular file and a new regular file of that name cannot be created, or if some other error occurs while opening or creating the file

SecurityException - If a security manager is present and checkWrite(fileName) denies write access to the file

UnsupportedEncodingException - If the named charset is not supported

Since:

1.5

PrintWriter

public PrintWriter(File file)
            throws FileNotFoundException

Creates a new PrintWriter, without automatic line flushing, with the specified file. This convenience constructor creates the necessary intermediate OutputStreamWriter , which will encode characters using the default charset for this instance of the Java virtual machine.

Parameters:

file - The file to use as the destination of this writer. If the file exists then it will be truncated to zero size; otherwise, a new file will be created. The output will be written to the file and is buffered.

Throws:

FileNotFoundException - If the given file object does not denote an existing, writable regular file and a new regular file of that name cannot be created, or if some other error occurs while opening or creating the file

SecurityException - If a security manager is present and checkWrite(file.getPath()) denies write access to the file

Since:

1.5

PrintWriter

public PrintWriter(File file,
                   String csn)
            throws FileNotFoundException,
                   UnsupportedEncodingException

Creates a new PrintWriter, without automatic line flushing, with the specified file and charset. This convenience constructor creates the necessary intermediate OutputStreamWriter , which will encode characters using the provided charset.

Parameters:

file - The file to use as the destination of this writer. If the file exists then it will be truncated to zero size; otherwise, a new file will be created. The output will be written to the file and is buffered.

csn - The name of a supported charset

Throws:

FileNotFoundException - If the given file object does not denote an existing, writable regular file and a new regular file of that name cannot be created, or if some other error occurs while opening or creating the file

SecurityException - If a security manager is present and checkWrite(file.getPath()) denies write access to the file

UnsupportedEncodingException - If the named charset is not supported

Since:

1.5

flush

public void flush()

Flushes Flush the stream.

Specified by:

flush in interface Flushable

Specified by:

flush in class Writer

See Also:

checkError()

close

public void close()

Closes the stream and releases any system resources associated with it. Closing a previously closed stream has no effect. Close the stream.

Specified by:

close in interface Closeable

Specified by:

close in class Writer

See Also:

checkError()

checkError

public boolean checkError()

Flushes the stream if it's not closed and checks its error state. Flush the stream if it's not closed and check its error state. Errors are cumulative; once the stream encounters an error, this routine will return true on all successive calls.

Returns:

true True if the print stream has encountered an error, either on the underlying output stream or during a format conversion.

setError

protected void setError()

Indicates Indicate that an error has occurred.

This method will cause subsequent invocations of checkError() to return true until clearError() is invoked.

clearError

 
protected void clearError () 

Clears the error state of this stream.

This method will cause subsequent invocations of checkError() to return false until another write operation fails and invokes setError() .

Since:

1.6

write

public void write(int c)

Writes Write a single character.

Overrides:

write in class Writer

Parameters:

c - int specifying a character to be written.

write

public void write(char[] buf,
                  int off,
                  int len)

Writes Write A Portion of an array of characters.

Specified by:

write in class Writer

Parameters:

buf - Array of characters

off - Offset from which to start writing characters

len - Number of characters to write

write

public void write(char[] buf)

Writes Write an array of characters. This method cannot be inherited from the Writer class because it must suppress I/O exceptions.

Overrides:

write in class Writer

Parameters:

buf - Array of characters to be written

write

public void write(String s,
                  int off,
                  int len)

Writes Write a portion of a string.

Overrides:

write in class Writer

Parameters:

s - A String

off - Offset from which to start writing characters

len - Number of characters to write

write

public void write(String s)

Writes Write a string. This method cannot be inherited from the Writer class because it must suppress I/O exceptions.

Overrides:

write in class Writer

Parameters:

s - String to be written

print

public void print(boolean b)

Prints Print a boolean value. The string produced by String.valueOf(boolean) is translated into bytes according to the platform's default character encoding, and these bytes are written in exactly the manner of the write(int) method.

Parameters:

b - The boolean to be printed

print

public void print(char c)

Prints Print a character. The character is translated into one or more bytes according to the platform's default character encoding, and these bytes are written in exactly the manner of the write(int) method.

Parameters:

c - The char to be printed

print

public void print(int i)

Prints Print an integer. The string produced by String.valueOf(int) is translated into bytes according to the platform's default character encoding, and these bytes are written in exactly the manner of the write(int) method.

Parameters:

i - The int to be printed

See Also:

Integer.toString(int)

print

public void print(long l)

Prints Print a long integer. The string produced by String.valueOf(long) is translated into bytes according to the platform's default character encoding, and these bytes are written in exactly the manner of the write(int) method.

Parameters:

l - The long to be printed

See Also:

Long.toString(long)

print

public void print(float f)

Prints Print a floating-point number. The string produced by String.valueOf(float) is translated into bytes according to the platform's default character encoding, and these bytes are written in exactly the manner of the write(int) method.

Parameters:

f - The float to be printed

See Also:

Float.toString(float)

print

public void print(double d)

Prints Print a double-precision floating-point number. The string produced by String.valueOf(double) is translated into bytes according to the platform's default character encoding, and these bytes are written in exactly the manner of the write(int) method.

Parameters:

d - The double to be printed

See Also:

Double.toString(double)

print

public void print(char[] s)

Prints Print an array of characters. The characters are converted into bytes according to the platform's default character encoding, and these bytes are written in exactly the manner of the write(int) method.

Parameters:

s - The array of chars to be printed

Throws:

NullPointerException - If s is null

print

public void print(String s)

Prints Print a string. If the argument is null then the string "null" is printed. Otherwise, the string's characters are converted into bytes according to the platform's default character encoding, and these bytes are written in exactly the manner of the write(int) method.

Parameters:

s - The String to be printed

print

public void print(Object obj)

Prints Print an object. The string produced by the String.valueOf(Object) method is translated into bytes according to the platform's default character encoding, and these bytes are written in exactly the manner of the write(int) method.

Parameters:

obj - The Object to be printed

See Also:

Object.toString()

println

public void println()

Terminates Terminate the current line by writing the line separator string. The line separator string is defined by the system property line.separator, and is not necessarily a single newline character ('\n').

println

public void println(boolean x)

Prints Print a boolean value and then terminates terminate the line. This method behaves as though it invokes print(boolean) and then println() .

Parameters:

x - the boolean value to be printed

println

public void println(char x)

Prints Print a character and then terminates terminate the line. This method behaves as though it invokes print(char) and then println() .

Parameters:

x - the char value to be printed

println

public void println(int x)

Prints Print an integer and then terminates terminate the line. This method behaves as though it invokes print(int) and then println() .

Parameters:

x - the int value to be printed

println

public void println(long x)

Prints Print a long integer and then terminates terminate the line. This method behaves as though it invokes print(long) and then println() .

Parameters:

x - the long value to be printed

println

public void println(float x)

Prints Print a floating-point number and then terminates terminate the line. This method behaves as though it invokes print(float) and then println() .

Parameters:

x - the float value to be printed

println

public void println(double x)

Prints Print a double-precision floating-point number and then terminates terminate the line. This method behaves as though it invokes print(double) and then println() .

Parameters:

x - the double value to be printed

println

public void println(char[] x)

Prints Print an array of characters and then terminates terminate the line. This method behaves as though it invokes print(char[]) and then println() .

Parameters:

x - the array of char values to be printed

println

public void println(String x)

Prints Print a String and then terminates terminate the line. This method behaves as though it invokes print(String) and then println() .

Parameters:

x - the String value to be printed

println

public void println(Object x)

Prints Print an Object and then terminates terminate the line. This method calls at first String.valueOf(x) to get the printed object's string value, then behaves as though it invokes print(String) print(Object) and then println() .

Parameters:

x - The the Object value to be printed. printed

printf

public PrintWriter printf(String format,
                          Object... args)

A convenience method to write a formatted string to this writer using the specified format string and arguments. If automatic flushing is enabled, calls to this method will flush the output buffer.

An invocation of this method of the form out.printf(format, args) behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation

     out.format(format, args) 

Parameters:

format - A format string as described in Format string syntax .

args - Arguments referenced by the format specifiers in the format string. If there are more arguments than format specifiers, the extra arguments are ignored. The number of arguments is variable and may be zero. The maximum number of arguments is limited by the maximum dimension of a Java array as defined by the Java Virtual Machine Specification . The behaviour on a null argument depends on the conversion .

Returns:

This writer

Throws:

IllegalFormatException - If a format string contains an illegal syntax, a format specifier that is incompatible with the given arguments, insufficient arguments given the format string, or other illegal conditions. For specification of all possible formatting errors, see the Details section of the formatter class specification.

NullPointerException - If the format is null

Since:

1.5

printf

public PrintWriter printf(Locale l,
                          String format,
                          Object... args)

A convenience method to write a formatted string to this writer using the specified format string and arguments. If automatic flushing is enabled, calls to this method will flush the output buffer.

An invocation of this method of the form out.printf(l, format, args) behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation

     out.format(l, format, args) 

Parameters:

l - The locale to apply during formatting. If l is null then no localization is applied.

format - A format string as described in Format string syntax .

args - Arguments referenced by the format specifiers in the format string. If there are more arguments than format specifiers, the extra arguments are ignored. The number of arguments is variable and may be zero. The maximum number of arguments is limited by the maximum dimension of a Java array as defined by the Java Virtual Machine Specification . The behaviour on a null argument depends on the conversion .

Returns:

This writer

Throws:

IllegalFormatException - If a format string contains an illegal syntax, a format specifier that is incompatible with the given arguments, insufficient arguments given the format string, or other illegal conditions. For specification of all possible formatting errors, see the Details section of the formatter class specification.

NullPointerException - If the format is null

Since:

1.5

format

public PrintWriter format(String format,
                          Object... args)

Writes a formatted string to this writer using the specified format string and arguments. If automatic flushing is enabled, calls to this method will flush the output buffer.

The locale always used is the one returned by Locale.getDefault() , regardless of any previous invocations of other formatting methods on this object.

Parameters:

format - A format string as described in Format string syntax .

args - Arguments referenced by the format specifiers in the format string. If there are more arguments than format specifiers, the extra arguments are ignored. The number of arguments is variable and may be zero. The maximum number of arguments is limited by the maximum dimension of a Java array as defined by the Java Virtual Machine Specification . The behaviour on a null argument depends on the conversion .

Returns:

This writer

Throws:

IllegalFormatException - If a format string contains an illegal syntax, a format specifier that is incompatible with the given arguments, insufficient arguments given the format string, or other illegal conditions. For specification of all possible formatting errors, see the Details section of the Formatter class specification.

NullPointerException - If the format is null

Since:

1.5

format

public PrintWriter format(Locale l,
                          String format,
                          Object... args)

Writes a formatted string to this writer using the specified format string and arguments. If automatic flushing is enabled, calls to this method will flush the output buffer.

Parameters:

l - The locale to apply during formatting. If l is null then no localization is applied.

format - A format string as described in Format string syntax .

args - Arguments referenced by the format specifiers in the format string. If there are more arguments than format specifiers, the extra arguments are ignored. The number of arguments is variable and may be zero. The maximum number of arguments is limited by the maximum dimension of a Java array as defined by the Java Virtual Machine Specification . The behaviour on a null argument depends on the conversion .

Returns:

This writer

Throws:

IllegalFormatException - If a format string contains an illegal syntax, a format specifier that is incompatible with the given arguments, insufficient arguments given the format string, or other illegal conditions. For specification of all possible formatting errors, see the Details section of the formatter class specification.

NullPointerException - If the format is null

Since:

1.5

append

public PrintWriter append(CharSequence csq)

Appends the specified character sequence to this writer.

An invocation of this method of the form out.append(csq) behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation

     out.write(csq.toString()) 

Depending on the specification of toString for the character sequence csq , the entire sequence may not be appended. For instance, invoking the toString method of a character buffer will return a subsequence whose content depends upon the buffer's position and limit.

Specified by:

append in interface Appendable

Overrides:

append in class Writer

Parameters:

csq - The character sequence to append. If csq is null , then the four characters "null" are appended to this writer.

Returns:

This writer

Since:

1.5

append

public PrintWriter append(CharSequence csq,
                          int start,
                          int end)

Appends a subsequence of the specified character sequence to this writer.

An invocation of this method of the form out.append(csq, start, end) when csq is not null , behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation

     out.write(csq.subSequence(start, end).toString()) 

Specified by:

append in interface Appendable

Overrides:

append in class Writer

Parameters:

csq - The character sequence from which a subsequence will be appended. If csq is null , then characters will be appended as if csq contained the four characters "null" .

start - The index of the first character in the subsequence

end - The index of the character following the last character in the subsequence

Returns:

This writer

Throws:

IndexOutOfBoundsException - If start or end are negative, start is greater than end , or end is greater than csq.length()

Since:

1.5

append

public PrintWriter append(char c)

Appends the specified character to this writer.

An invocation of this method of the form out.append(c) behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation

     out.write(c) 

Specified by:

append in interface Appendable

Overrides:

append in class Writer

Parameters:

c - The 16-bit character to append

Returns:

This writer

Since:

1.5