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Character Streams in Java

Character streams in Java handle 16-bit Unicode text data and provide classes like Reader and Writer as abstract superclasses. Common character stream classes include BufferedReader, FileReader, FileWriter, and InputStreamReader which can be used to read from and write to files and streams. The example program demonstrates using FileReader to read from a file into a character array and FileWriter to write the array to a new output file.

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Character Streams in Java

Character streams in Java handle 16-bit Unicode text data and provide classes like Reader and Writer as abstract superclasses. Common character stream classes include BufferedReader, FileReader, FileWriter, and InputStreamReader which can be used to read from and write to files and streams. The example program demonstrates using FileReader to read from a file into a character array and FileWriter to write the array to a new output file.

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Character streams in Java

Character Streams − These handle data in 16 bit Unicode. Using these you can read and write
text data only.

The Reader and Writer classes (abstract) are the super classes of all the character stream
classes: classes that are used to read/write character streams. Following are the character array
stream classes provided by Java −

Reader Writer

BufferedReader BufferedWriter

CharacterArrayReader CharacterArrayWriter

StringReader StringWriter

FileReader FileWriter

InputStreamReader InputStreamWriter

FileReader FileWriter

Example
The following Java program reads data from a particular file using FileReader and writes it to
another, using FileWriter.

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileReader;

import java.io.FileWriter;

import java.io.IOException;

public class IOStreamsExample {

   public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {

      //Creating FileReader object

      File file = new File("D:/myFile.txt");

      FileReader reader = new FileReader(file);

      char chars[] = new char[(int) file.length()];

      //Reading data from the file

      reader.read(chars);

      //Writing data to another file

      File out = new File("D:/CopyOfmyFile.txt");

      FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(out);

      //Writing data to the file

      writer.write(chars);

      writer.flush();

      System.out.println("Data successfully written in the specified file");

   }

Output
Data successfully written in the specified file

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