How to overwrite a file in Java

[naivewisdom]

I'm writing a program that needs to overwrite a file at the end of each usage. Currently, the program work as a whole, except at the end of each game, when the overwrite method(shown below) is called, the file is not overwritten unless the user goes to the file, where a pop up box asks if you want to overwrite the file. Is there a way I can either delete the file at the beginning of the method or make the file automatically be written over without asking the player? Here is my code for that method currently:

private File learningFile; //previously in code
learningFile = new File("learningFile"); //previously in code
 
public void overWriteLearning() 
 { 
  learningFile.delete();
  FileOutputStream fout;  
  try
  {
      fout = new FileOutputStream ("learningFile");
      int a;
   int b; 
   int c;
 
    for( a=0; a<4; a++)
    {
     for(b=0; b<6; b++)
     {
      for(c=0; c<8; c++)
      {
       new PrintStream(fout).println (learning[a][b][c]);
      }
      c=0;
     }
     b=0;
    }
      fout.close();  
  }
  // Catches any error conditions
  catch (IOException e)
  {
   System.err.println ("Unable to write to file");
   System.exit(-1);
  }
 }
 

[Dheeraj Joshi]

Please try

fout = new FileOutputStream ("learningFile",false);
 

BTW,

fout = new FileOutputStream ("learningFile");
 

This should also overwrite the file. Probably i did not understood your question :)

Regards
Dheeraj Joshi

[jkmyoung]

Is there a particular reason why the learningFile.delete(); call isn't working?
Do you get any error when calling it?

How is the player "going to the file" ? Do you have some sort of filechooser?

I don't think we're seeing the correct part of the code.