Dump a String to a text file with encoding in Java

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import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.Writer;



public class Main {


  /**
   * Dump a <code>String</code> to a text file.
   *
   * @param file The output file
   * @param string The string to be dumped
   * @param encoding The encoding for the output file or null for default platform encoding
   * @exception IOException IO Error

   */
  public static void serializeString(File file, String string, String encoding)
  throws IOException {
      final Writer fw =
              (encoding == null)?
              new FileWriter(file):
              new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file), encoding);
      try {
          fw.write(string);
          fw.flush();
      } finally {
          fw.close();
      }
  }
}