I want to know where is the difference between System.out.write and System.out.print in my Java class.
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Willi Mentzel
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1It is actually no big difference, you inherit the write from the underlying output stream. You can use both but print/printf is typically more convinient (especially as it supresses exceptions). – eckes Feb 15 '15 at 01:40
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For me I used System.out.write() but it didnt work,I change it to println and it works.I still didnt understand why. – Kayode Apr 15 '17 at 09:40
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The two methods of PrintStream have different meanings:
print(int)writes a decimal representation of the entireint, whilewrite(int)writes the least significant byte of the specifiedintto the output.
This leads to different results: if you call print(48), the output is going to be 48, but if you call write(48), the output would be system-dependent, but on most systems it would be 0.
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@immibis When you work with characters, it does. But the `write` call is on the byte level, not on the character level, so the system is free to interpret that byte in a system-specific way. – Sergey Kalinichenko Feb 15 '15 at 02:16
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