Write String as bytes to a file using DataOutputStream


/*
  Write String as bytes to a file using DataOutputStream
  This Java example shows how to write a Java String value to a file as a sequence of bytes
  using writeBytes method of Java DataOutputStream class.
*/

import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

public class WriteStringAsBytesToFile {

 
public static void main(String[] args) {
   
   
String strFilePath = "C://FileIO//WriteStringAsBytes.txt";
   
   
try
   
{
     
//create FileOutputStream object
     
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(strFilePath);
     
     
/*
       * To create DataOutputStream object from FileOutputStream use,
       * DataOutputStream(OutputStream os) constructor.
       *
       */
      
      
DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(fos);
      
       String str =
"This string will be written to file as sequence of bytes!";
      
      
/*
        * To write a string as a sequence of bytes to a file, use
        * void writeBytes(String str) method of Java DataOutputStream class.
        *
        * This method writes string as a sequence of bytes to underlying output
        * stream (Each character's high eight bits are discarded first).
        */
       
       
dos.writeBytes(str);
       
       
/*
         * To close DataOutputStream use,
         * void close() method.
         *
         */
        
        
dos.close();
        
   
}
   
catch (IOException e)
    {
     
System.out.println("IOException : " + e);
   
}

  }
}