I need to save a String to a text file using Java

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Published on 2009-06-27T19:37:28Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 18:38 UTC
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I am a beginner Java programmer. I am attempting to make a simple text editor. I have got the text from the text field into a variable that's a String, called "text".

My question is, how can I save the contents of the "text" variable to a text file?

Thank you!

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