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It is good programming practice to flush print writers and file output streams when you are finished with them.

You flush a print writer to ensure that any buffered characters are actually written to the stream's destination. You do flushing by using a flush statement:

writer.flush(); 

You close file output streams to release system resources. You do closing by using the same sort of close statement that you use to close file input streams:

stream.close();