Cacher is the code snippet organizer for pro developers

/**
 * create a new file or overwrite it with the string
 * @param path make sure path escapes the slashes "\\" 
 * @param content
 * @throws IOException 
 */
private void overwriteFile(String path, String content) throws IOException {	      
      File file = new File(path);
      FileWriter bw = new FileWriter(file);
      bw.write(content);
      bw.close();
}