Java.io.BufferedWriter.flush() Method

Description

The java.io.BufferedWriter.flush() method flushes the characters from a write buffer to the character or byte stream as an intended destination.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.io.BufferedWriter.flush() method

public Writer flush()

Parameters

• NA

Return Value

This method does not return any value.

Exception

• IOException -- -- if an I/O error occurs..

Example

The following example shows the usage of public Writer flush() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;

public class BufferedWriterDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
      
      StringWriter sw = null;
      BufferedWriter bw = null;
      String letters = "ABCDEFGHIJK";
      
      try{
         // create string writer
         sw = new StringWriter();
         
         //create buffered writer
         bw = new BufferedWriter(sw);
         
         // for each character in the string
         for (char c: letters.toCharArray())
         {
            
            // append character to the writer
            bw.append(c);
            
            // flush the characters to the intended stream
            bw.flush();
            
            // print string buffer from string writer
            System.out.println(sw.getBuffer());
         }
      }catch(IOException e){
         // if I/O error occurs
         e.printStackTrace();
      }finally{
         // releases any system resources associated with the stream
         if(sw!=null)
            sw.close();
         if(bw!=null)
            bw.close();
      }
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:

A
AB
ABC
ABCD
ABCDE
ABCDEF
ABCDEFG
ABCDEFGH
ABCDEFGHI
ABCDEFGHIJ
ABCDEFGHIJK