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Name

### createWriter()

Examples

    PrintWriter output;

    void setup() {
      // Create a new file in the sketch directory
      output = createWriter("positions.txt");
    }

    void draw() {
      point(mouseX, mouseY);
      output.println(mouseX + "t" + mouseY); // Write the coordinate to the file
    }

    void keyPressed() {
      output.flush(); // Writes the remaining data to the file
      output.close(); // Finishes the file
      exit(); // Stops the program
    }

Description

Creates a new file in the sketch folder, and a PrintWriter object to write to it. For the file to be made correctly, it should be flushed and must be closed with its flush() and close() methods (see above example).
Starting with Processing release 0134, all files loaded and saved by the Processing API use UTF-8 encoding. In previous releases, the default encoding for your platform was used, which causes problems when files are moved to other platforms.

Syntax

    createWriter(filename)

Parameters

filename | Name of the file to be created

Returns | PrintWriter or null
Usage | Application
Related | PrintWriter createReader BufferedReader

Updated on August 30, 2010 04:29:39pm EDT