cannot resolve symbol method append

Asked Jul 25 '14 at 08:50

Active Jul 25 '14 at 09:02

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This is a snippet out of my code.

if (sb.toString().endsWith(pattern)) {
    String str=sb.toString();
    bw.append(str);
    bw.close();
    return sb.toString();
}

bw has been declared earlier. the necessary header files have been imported. Yet it is throwing an error saying

Cannot resolve symbol
symbol: method append(java.lang.string)
location: java.io.BufferedWriter

any solutions?

edited Jul 25 '14 at 08:51

Shlublu

asked Jul 25 '14 at 08:50

mv93

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Which JDK version are you using? BTW, there are no `header files` in Java – Andreas Fester Jul 25 '14 at 08:55
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Looks like you use a jdk version lower then 1.5, in which the method `append(CharacterSequence)` is introduced – Jens Jul 25 '14 at 09:02
@GyroGearless BufferedWriter gets append method from Writer. – Sanjeev Jul 25 '14 at 09:05
the code shall work perfectly fine if the `java version >=5` – SparkOn Jul 25 '14 at 09:06
unless he is actually missing an import – gkrls Jul 25 '14 at 09:07
@Jens that is the issue i think. whats the work around to this if i dont want to download a higher version of java – mv93 Jul 30 '14 at 10:43
@mv93 look [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1625234/how-to-append-text-to-an-existing-file-in-java) maybe this is a solution. – Jens Jul 30 '14 at 10:56

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