If I want to create a java program for myself to balance my check book on, and I want to store data from one session to another... how do i do that? Is there anyway to write data to a text file on exit and read data from a text file on start? I have taken cs1, but this was not covered.. can anyone help?

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Read This (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/io/package-summary.html) Specifically you'll want to look at FileInputStream and FileOutputStream.