Java Utililty Methods Write String to File

List of utility methods to do Write String to File

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Method

voidwriteFile(File file, Iterable lines)
Write a bunch of Strings to a file, overwriting anything that was on it 
if (file == null)
    throw new IOException("got null file");
if (file.isDirectory())
    throw new IOException(file + " is a directory");
file.createNewFile();
PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(file, "UTF8");
try {
    for (String line : lines)
...
voidwriteFile(File file, String content)
write File 
FileWriter fw = null;
try {
    fw = new FileWriter(file);
    fw.write(content);
    fw.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
...
voidwriteFile(File file, String content)
Write content to file 
Writer out = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file), "UTF-8"));
out.write(content);
out.close();
voidwriteFile(File file, String content)
write File 
if (!file.getParentFile().isDirectory()) {
    file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
BufferedWriter out = null;
try {
    out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));
    out.write(content);
} finally {
...
voidwriteFile(File file, String content)
write File 
writeFile(file, content, false);
booleanwriteFile(File file, String content)
write File 
if (!file.exists()) {
    try {
        file.createNewFile();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        return false;
FileWriter w = null;
...
voidwriteFile(File file, String content)
Write some text into a file (and create it if doesn't exist) 
BufferedWriter bw = null;
boolean created = true;
try {
    if (!file.exists())
        created = file.createNewFile();
    if (!created) {
        throw new IOException("File cannot be created");
    bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file, false));
    bw.write(content);
    bw.flush();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    if (bw != null)
        bw.close();
    throw e;
} finally {
    if (bw != null)
        bw.close();
voidwriteFile(File file, String content)
Reads some bytes from the file. 
if (!file.exists()) {
    file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
FileWriter out = null;
try {
    out = new FileWriter(file);
    out.write(content);
} finally {
...
booleanwriteFile(File file, String content, String charset)
write File 
try {
    BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file), charset));
    bw.write(content);
    bw.flush();
    bw.close();
    return true;
} catch (IOException e) {
    return false;
...
voidwriteFile(File file, String content, String charsetName)
write File 
File parentFolder = file.getParentFile();
if (!parentFolder.exists()) {
    parentFolder.mkdirs();
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file), charsetName));
try {
    writer.write(content);
} finally {
...