basic PrintWriter question

[jaden403]

Is there a way to define a PrintWriter object in main() and use it in other methods (within the same class) without having to pass the object as a parameter to all of the other methods?

For example:

public static void main (String args []) throws FileNotFoundException {
      
          PrintWriter outFile = new PrintWriter("test.dat");
               doSomething();
               outFile.close();
      
 }

doSomething() {

         //do some computation here..

         outFile.println("print random crap....");

}

I tried declaring PrintWriter before main(), but that did not work either.

Thanks...

[peter_budo]

No, because it need to be checked for FileNotFoundException. So you can inplemented in it own class or just a method which will deal with printing request