Java - how do I write a file to a specified directory

Question

I want to write a file results.txt to a specific directory on my machine (Z:\results to be precise). How do I go about specifying the directory to BufferedWriter/FileWriter?

Currently, it writes the file successfully but to the directory where my source code is located. Thanks

    public void writefile(){

    try{
        Writer output = null;
        File file = new File("results.txt");
        output = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));

        for(int i=0; i<100; i++){
           //CODE TO FETCH RESULTS AND WRITE FILE
        }

        output.close();
        System.out.println("File has been written");

    }catch(Exception e){
        System.out.println("Could not create file");
    }
}

Answer 1

You should use the secondary constructor for File to specify the directory in which it is to be symbolically created. This is important because the answers that say to create a file by prepending the directory name to original name, are not as system independent as this method.

Sample code:

String dirName = /* something to pull specified dir from input */;

String fileName = "test.txt";
File dir = new File (dirName);
File actualFile = new File (dir, fileName);

/* rest is the same */

Hope it helps.