java - PrintWriter add text to file

Question

In my online computer science class I have to write a program to determine the surface gravity on each planet in the solar system. I have gotten almost every aspect of it to work save one. I need to write the surface gravity to a file using a separate method. This is my current method:

public static void writeResultsToFile(double g) throws IOException{

    PrintWriter outFile = new PrintWriter(new File("planetaryData.txt"));

    outFile.printf("%.2f%n", g);
    outFile.close();
}

My problem is that when I write it to a file it will overwrite the previous value. How do I get it include all of the values. Here is the entirety of my code if that helps:

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.File;


public class gravityV1 {

    /**
     * @param args
     */

    public static double calculateSurfaceGravity(double d, double M){
        double G = 6.67 * Math.pow(10, -11);
        double r = d;
        double g;

        g = G * M/Math.pow(r/2*1000, 2);

        return g;
    }

    public static void printResultsToScreen(String planetName, double diameterKm, double massKg, double g){

        System.out.printf("%-15s%-17.0f%-17.2e%.2f%n", planetName, diameterKm, massKg, g);

    }

    public static void writeResultsToFile(double g) throws IOException{

        PrintWriter outFile = new PrintWriter(new File("planetaryData.txt"));

        outFile.printf("%.2f%n", g);
        outFile.close();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        // Variables
        String [] planetName = new String[8];
        planetName[0] = "Mercury";
        planetName[1] = "Venus  ";
        planetName[2] = "Earth  ";
        planetName[3] = "Mars   ";
        planetName[4] = "Jupiter";
        planetName[5] = "Saturn ";
        planetName[6] = "Uranus ";
        planetName[7] = "Neptune";
        double [] diameterKm = new double[8];
        diameterKm[0] = 4880;
        diameterKm[1] = 12103.6;
        diameterKm[2] = 12756;
        diameterKm[3] = 6794;
        diameterKm[4] = 142984;
        diameterKm[5] = 120536;
        diameterKm[6] = 51118;
        diameterKm[7] = 49532;
        double [] massKg = new double[8];
        massKg[0] = 3.30 * Math.pow(10, 23);
        massKg[1] = 4.869 * Math.pow(10, 24);
        massKg[2] = 5.97 * Math.pow(10, 24);
        massKg[3] = 6.4219 * Math.pow(10, 23);
        massKg[4] = 1.900 * Math.pow(10, 27);
        massKg[5] = 5.68 * Math.pow(10, 26);
        massKg[6] = 8.683 * Math.pow(10, 25);
        massKg[7] = 1.0247 * Math.pow(10, 26);
        double [] g = new double[8];
        int array = 0;

        //code

        System.out.printf("%s%20s%15s%15s%n", "Planet", "Diameter (km)", "Mass (kg)", "g (m/s^2)");

        for(double d : diameterKm){
            g[array] = calculateSurfaceGravity(d, massKg[array]);
            printResultsToScreen(planetName[array], d, massKg[array], g[array]);
            writeResultsToFile(g[array]);
            array++;
        }
    }

}

Answer 1

Do this in order to create a PrinterWriter working with a FileWriter in append mode:

PrintWriter outFile = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter("planetaryData.txt", true));