Re: Easy question but I can't seem to get it to work

Hey guys thanks to your help I have the program reading in my files
perfectly now. Now I have small question about writing a file. My
code successfully writes a file but when I open it up in Notepad it
just displays it as one long line.

This is how it should look I think:
------------------
Line 1 end of line 1
Line 2 end of line 2
Line 3 end of line 3

But this is how it looks in Notepad
-----------
Line 1 end of line 1 Line 2 end of line 2 Line 3 end of
line 3
------ (You can't see it but it has a little square at the place where
each Enter should be)

public static void writeFile(String fileName, String emptyForNow)
{
            String writeData = "Line 1 \t \t end of line 1\nLine 2 \t
\t end of line 2\nLine 3 \t \t end of line 3";
    try {
        FileWriter fw = new FileWriter (fileName);

        fw.write (writeData);
        fw.close();
    }
    catch (IOException e) {
        System.err.println ("The file write operation encountered an
error");
    }

}

    Any ideas or pointers would be greatly appreciated. It seems to
look alright in WordPad but I would like to get the fileformat back to
my original .txt file so it concerns me that it displays different in
Notepad when I write it back to disk. Thanks