Write String as bytes to a file using DataOutputStream

  1. /*
  2.   Write String as bytes to a file using DataOutputStream
  3.   This Java example shows how to write a Java String value to a file
  4.   as a sequence of bytes using writeBytes method of Java
  5.   DataOutputStream class.
  6. */
  7.  
  8. import java.io.DataOutputStream;
  9. import java.io.FileOutputStream;
  10. import java.io.IOException;
  11.  
  12. public class WriteStringAsBytesToFile {
  13.  
  14. public static void main(String[] args) {
  15.  
  16. String strFilePath = "C://FileIO//WriteStringAsBytes.txt";
  17.  
  18. try
  19. {
  20. //create FileOutputStream object
  21. FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(strFilePath);
  22.  
  23. /*
  24.   * To create DataOutputStream object from FileOutputStream use,
  25.   * DataOutputStream(OutputStream os) constructor.
  26.   *
  27.   */
  28.  
  29. DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(fos);
  30.  
  31. String str = "This string will be written to file as sequence of bytes!";
  32.  
  33. /*
  34.   * To write a string as a sequence of bytes to a file, use
  35.   * void writeBytes(String str) method of Java DataOutputStream class.
  36.   *
  37.   * This method writes string as a sequence of bytes to underlying output
  38.   * stream (Each character's high eight bits are discarded first).
  39.   */
  40.  
  41. dos.writeBytes(str);
  42.  
  43. /*
  44.   * To close DataOutputStream use,
  45.   * void close() method.
  46.   *
  47.   */
  48.  
  49. dos.close();
  50.  
  51. }
  52. catch (IOException e)
  53. {
  54. System.out.println("IOException : " + e);
  55. }
  56.  
  57. }
  58. }

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