Java.io.PrintStream.append() Method

Description

The java.io.PrintStream.append() method appends the specified character sequence to this output stream.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.io.PrintStream.append() method.

public PrintStream append(CharSequence csq)

Parameters

csq − The character sequence to append. If csq is null, then the four characters "null" are appended to this output stream.

Return Value

This method returns this output stream.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.io.PrintStream.append() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.io.*;

public class PrintStreamDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      String s = "Hello World. ";

      // create printstream object
      PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(System.out);

      // append our strings
      ps.append(s);
      ps.append("This is an example.");

      // print the result
      ps.flush();
      ps.close();
   }
}

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

Hello World. This is an example.