Saving JTextArea using Bufferedwriter ignores new line. (Notepad clone)

Asked May 26 '17 at 02:05

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I was developing a notepad clone as a fun little side-project, and I came across what I have always come across throughout my short personal career of Java and Swing:

Attempting to save a JTextArea's '.getText()' with plenty of new lines, yields to a text file with all of the text jumbled up into one single line.

Is there a way for bufferedwriter (correct me if I'm wrong) to automatically create a new line when it detects an 'enter' in the text and create a new line in the saved .txt file?

(As a side note, I accidentally used a JEditorPane, and this saves the new lines perfectly fine, but my "Open/Import .txt" function no longer works.)

edited May 26 '17 at 02:09

asked May 26 '17 at 02:05

SteamPlayer

Use the JTextArea's own `write(...)` method. Pass a BufferedWriter into it and this should create an OS-specific file with correct newline chars. – Hovercraft Full Of Eels May 26 '17 at 02:08
@Hover, Apologies, but I'm quite basic in Java compared to others. How exactly could I do this? Should I provide a section of my code? – SteamPlayer May 26 '17 at 02:10
No need -- just check the duplicate question used to close this question. – Hovercraft Full Of Eels May 26 '17 at 02:11
@Hover - Ahh, thank you. I always feel like I'm posting useless questions, lol. – SteamPlayer May 26 '17 at 02:12

Saving JTextArea using Bufferedwriter ignores new line. (Notepad clone)

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