Append data to a file

				
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// Name: Append data to a file
// Description:In Java 1.1 you can just pass true as the second argument to this FileOutputStream constructor to indicate that you want to append data to the file:
public FileOutputStream(String name, boolean append) 
 throws IOException
In Java 1.0, however, you must use the java.io.RandomAccessFile class that lets you read and write bytes from arbitrary locations in a file. This class implements DataInput and DataOutput so you have all the methods of DataInputStream and DataOutputStream available to you.
To create a new random access file pass the name of the file and the mode to the constructor. The mode is either "r" (read-only) or "rw" (read and write). The length() method returns a long that tells you how many bytes there are in a file and the seek(long p) method lets you position the file pointer at a particular point in the file. Thus to start writing at the end of a RandomAccessFile raf, you first raf.seek(raf.length()). The following example demonstrates by appending the string "Kilroy was here!" to every file specified on the command line.
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import java.io.*;
class AppendToAFile {
 public static void main (String args[]) {
for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
 //First open the file you want to append to
 try {
RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(args[i], "rw");
// Position yourself at the end of the file
raf.seek(raf.length());
// Write the String into the file. Note that you must
// explicitly handle line breaks.
raf.writeBytes("\nKilroy was here!\n");
 }
 catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Error opening file: " + e);
 }
 
}
 } 
}