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Java RandomAccessFile writeChar() Method with Example

RandomAccessFile Class writeChar() method: Here, we are going to learn about the writeChar() method of RandomAccessFile Class with its syntax and example.
Submitted by Preeti Jain, on March 23, 2020

RandomAccessFile Class writeChar() method

• writeChar() method is available in java.io package.
• writeChar() method is used to write the character to the file up to 2 bytes.
• writeChar() method is a non-static method, it is accessible with the class object only and if we try to access the method with the class name then we will get an error.
• writeChar() method may throw an exception at the time of writing the character.
  IOException: This exception may throw an exception while performing input/output operation.

Syntax:

    public final void writeChar(char val);

Parameter(s):

• char val – represents the character value to write.

Return value:

The return type of this method is void, it returns nothing.

Example:

// Java program to demonstrate the example 
// of void writeChar(char val) method of
// RandomAccessFile

import java.io.*;
class RAFWriteChar {
 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  int val = 100;
  // Instantiate a random access file
  // object with file name and permissions
  RandomAccessFile ra_f = new RandomAccessFile("e:/includehelp.txt", "rw");

  // By using writeChar() method is to 
  // write character to the file
  // at a time 
  ra_f.writeChar(val);

  // by using seek() method is to 
  // set the current file indicator
  // from where read/write could 
  // start i.e. we set here 0 so reading
  // will be done from 0 till EOF
  ra_f.seek(0);

  // By using readChar() method is to 
  // read a character from this file
  System.out.println("ra_f.readChar(): " + ra_f.readChar());

  // By using close() method isto
  // close this stream ran_f
  ra_f.close();
 }
}

Output

ra_f.readChar(): d