Yeah.  Can't help you there.  Most things require a
little bit of work - and documentation is one of them.
;-) The FileWriter super class has an encoding
parameter you can set.  

If you're using an IDE most of them have code lookup
features that will help you explore the API a little
easier.  And they also autogenerate comment stubs.

Mark

--- Kenneth Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> That would work except for three things:
> 
> A) I have to write/document/maintain the function.
> B) There is no encoding parameter.
> C) Garbage collection hints are missing.
> 
> Granted, if I wrote it myself, reasons B and C would
> be handled.
> 
> Mostly, I was just wanting to be lazy and use
> someone else's already
> tested/debugged code.  :-)
> 
> I've been really impressed with the Commons IO
> library.  There are so
> many methods/classes/interfaces/etc. that are "the
> way things ought to
> be".  The only lament I have about this library is
> that I was programming
> in Java for 8 months before I heard about it.
> 
> Kenneth
> 
> At 02:37 PM 4/6/2006, you wrote:
> >Kenneth,
> >You might want to try this: 
>
>http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.io/AppendToFile.html
> >
> >HTH,
> >Mark
> >
> >Kenneth Love wrote:
> >>
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I'm looking for a function similar to the
> following:
> >>
>
>>org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.writeStringToFile(file,
> msg, encoding)
> >>
> >>I need to append to an already existing file. 
> Unfortunately, the
> >>function call above overwrites the contents of the
> file.
> >>
> >>Does a function with the functionality I need
> already exist somewhere
> >>in the Jakarta Commons libraries?
> >>
> >>How easy would it be to overload
> writeStringToFile() so that it has a
> >>fourth parameter allowing appending to a file
> instead of overwriting it?
> >>
> >>                                                
> Sincerely,
> >>                                                
> Kenneth Love
> >>
> >>
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