How to append text into File in Java – FileWriter Example

Some times we need to append text into File in Java instead of creating new File. Thankfully Java File API is very rich and it provides several ways to append text into File in Java. Previously we have seen how to create file and directory in Java and how to read and write to text file in Java and in this Java IO tutorial we will see how to append text into file in Java. We are going to use standard FileWriter and  BufferedWriter approach to append text to File. One of the key point to remember while using FileWriter in Java is to initialize FileWriter to append text i.e. writing bytes at the end of File rather than writing on beginning of the File. In next section we will see complete Java program to append text into File in Java.  By the way you can also use FileOutputStream instead of FileWriter if you would like to write bytes, instead of text. Similar to FileWriter, FileOutputStream constructoralso takes a boolean append argument to open connection to append bytes into File in Java.

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