- Processing
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Class | PrintWriter
Name | ### print()
Examples |
    PrintWriter output;

    void setup() {
      // Create a new file in the sketch directory
      output = createWriter("positions.txt");
    }

    void draw() {
      point(mouseX, mouseY);
      output.print(mouseX + "t");  // Write the X coordinate to the file
      output.println(mouseY);  // Write the Y coordinate to the file
    }

    void keyPressed() {
      output.flush();  // Writes the remaining data to the file
      output.close();  // Finishes the file
      exit();  // Stops the program
    }
Description | Writes data to a PrintWriter object stream.
Syntax |
    pw.print(data)
Parameters |
pw | any object of the type PrintWriter
data | boolean, byte, char, color, int, float, String

Updated on January 1, 2021 03:38:12am EST
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