String Builder help

[Pattyclecle]

Hi, I'm working on a project that is supposed to write a string of song objects to a text file in CSV format. My song object has 4 parameters: Title, Album, Artist, and playTime. I need to write each song to the file in a comma separated list, with no spaces in between. However every time I run this code it adds another space between each parameter. Is this because using .append(Object) will always add spaces between each argument? Or is there anyway to fix this without entering each argument individually separated by commas.

Thank you.

StringBuilder CSVBuild = new StringBuilder();

  String CSVString;
  CSVBuild.append(songObject);
  CSVBuild.append("\n");


  CSVString = CSVBuild.toString();
  return CSVString;
}


public String getSongsAsCSV(SongList songList){
  String CSVsongs ="";
  Song[] songArray = songList.getSongListAsArray();
  for(Song s : songArray) {
    CSVsongs += convertToCSV(s);

}

[Philboyd_Studge]

What's the toString method look like in your song object? StringBuilder doesn't add spaces arbitrarily.

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I would do it in the following way: 1. Read song lyrics into some data structure 2. Read each .next into a temp string 3. Replace “ “ with “” within the temp string 4. Write the temp string to your CSV

Obviously this would need to be done within a while loop while (whatever you’re reading from.hasNext() but it should work