Save the contents of a table to a TSV file - Java Swing

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Save the contents of a table to a TSV file

Demo Code

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//package com.java2s;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.TableModel;
import javax.swing.table.TableColumnModel;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Save the contents of a table to a TSV file
     * Note:  uses toString() on the header cells as well as the data cells.  If you've got funny columns,
     * expect funny behavior
     * @param table
     * @param outFile
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void SaveTableAsTSV(JTable table, File outFile)
            throws IOException {
        PrintWriter outPW = new PrintWriter(outFile);

        TableModel tableModel = table.getModel();
        TableColumnModel columnModel = table.getColumnModel();

        StringBuffer headerLineBuf = new StringBuffer();
        for (int i = 0; i < columnModel.getColumnCount(); i++) {
            if (i > 0)
                headerLineBuf.append("\t");
            headerLineBuf.append(columnModel.getColumn(i).getHeaderValue()
                    .toString());
        }
        outPW.println(headerLineBuf.toString());
        outPW.flush();
        for (int i = 0; i < tableModel.getRowCount(); i++) {
            StringBuffer lineBuf = new StringBuffer();
            for (int j = 0; j < tableModel.getColumnCount(); j++) {
                if (j > 0)
                    lineBuf.append("\t");
                lineBuf.append(tableModel.getValueAt(i, j).toString());
            }
            outPW.println(lineBuf.toString());
            outPW.flush();
        }
        outPW.close();
    }
}

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