Java PrintWriter Create getPrintWriter(File file)

Description

Init.

License

LGPL

Parameter

Parameter	Description
file	-- the output file

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	an exception

Return

PrintWriter for file

Declaration

public static PrintWriter getPrintWriter(File file) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: LGPL 

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;

public class Main {
    /**// w  w w . ja  v  a 2s  . c  o  m
     * Init. a writer for the given file object.
     * In the case of .gz file name ending a GZIP compressed writer is returned.
     * @param file -- the output file
     * @return PrintWriter for file
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static PrintWriter getPrintWriter(File file) throws IOException {
        //check for compressing
        if (file.getName().endsWith(".gz")) {
            return new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new GZIPOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file))));
        }

        return new PrintWriter(file);
    }
}

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