Reading Data from a File

1. Reading from Text Files

An input stream can be connected to a text file. With character-oriented input streams, characters are automatically translated from the external (disk file) format to the internal (Java char) format.

Chapter Topics:
  • Reader
  • FileReader and BufferedReader
  • readLine()
  • Text file copy program
  • C-style input loop


Question 1:

What is the ancestor class of all character-oriented input streams?

Source: Bradley Kjell, http://programmedlessons.org/java5/Notes/chap84/ch84_1.html
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