How to append text to file in Java 8 using specified Charset

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I'm looking for an easy and save solution to append text to a existing file in Java 8 using a specified Charset cs. The solution which I found here deals with the standard Charset which is a no-go in my situation.

score 26 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '15 at 15:45

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One way it to use the overloaded version of Files.write that accepts a Charset:

import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
import static java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption.APPEND;
import static java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption.CREATE;

List<String> lines = ...;
Files.write(log, lines, UTF_8, APPEND, CREATE);

answered May 18 '15 at 15:45

assylias

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Great. I was already thinking about that function but I didn't know that there is an OpenOption "APPEND". I just read "options - options specifying how the file is opened" and thought: No way, this function won't help me. – principal-ideal-domain May 18 '15 at 16:03
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Knowing POSIX APIs, `open()` in this case, helps understanding such things. In the end java can only provide wrappers over system functions. It's also useful to know what you can fall back to via JNA if java isn't powerful enough. – the8472 May 18 '15 at 16:45
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@principal-ideal-domain FYI, it was already answered in the question you linked http://stackoverflow.com/a/29456593/1587046 And then you could just look at the API to see that there is an overloaded version where you can specify the charset https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/Files.html#write(java.nio.file.Path,%20java.lang.Iterable,%20java.nio.charset.Charset,%20java.nio.file.OpenOption...) – Alexis C. May 18 '15 at 19:29

Joop Eggen · Answer 2 · 2016-05-25T12:52:14.133

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Path path = Paths.get("...");
Charset charset = StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
List<String> list = Collections.singletonList("...");
Files.write(path, charset, list, StandardOpenOption.APPEND);

edited May 25 '16 at 12:52

answered May 18 '15 at 15:46

Joop Eggen

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small typo: StandardOpenOption.APPEND – Apostolos May 25 '16 at 08:06

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 18 '15 at 15:50

Based on the accepted answer in the question you pointed at:

try (PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("myfile.txt", true), charset)))) {
    out.println("the text");
} catch (IOException e) {
    //exception handling left as an exercise for the reader
}

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 18 '15 at 15:45

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You can use append method from Guava Class Files. Also, you can take a look to java.nio.charset.Charset.

answered May 18 '15 at 15:45

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How to append text to file in Java 8 using specified Charset

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