Java FileUtils.writeLines in ANSI format with New line as CR LF

Question

I would like to write file in JAVA

Encoding : ANSI

New line: CR LF

Example:

FileUtils.writeLines(new File(baseFolder.getAbsolutePath() + File.separatorChar + filename), data);

I am using

Apache FileUtils.writeLines

but it is always in

UTF-8

not

ANSI

and new line as

LF

and not

CR LF

?

Server is

Linux

not

Windows

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Answer 1

Invoke the appropriate overload of writeLines, with the parameters in the right order:

public static void writeLines(File file,
          String encoding,
          Collection<?> lines,
          String lineEnding)
                   throws IOException

e.g.

FileUtils.writeLines(
    new File(baseFolder.getAbsolutePath(), filename),
    "Cp1252",
    data,
    "\r\n");

Note that Windows ANSI isn actually called Cp1252 in Java, according to this answer.

You are passing the encoding as the last parameter to this overload, which is actually the line ending parameter.

public static void writeLines(File file,
          Collection<?> lines,
          String lineEnding)
                   throws IOException

Java FileUtils.writeLines in ANSI format with New line as CR LF

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