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The File Class

The File class represents files and directories on the filesystem. It allows getting and setting file attributes like name, path, length, and modification time. The Reader and Writer classes provide methods for reading and writing text files. The FileReader and FileWriter classes extend Reader and Writer for reading and writing files. The BufferedReader class builds on FileReader to provide efficient reading of lines. Similarly, the PrintWriter class extends Writer and provides print methods for writing different data types to files like println for strings.

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The File Class

The File class represents files and directories on the filesystem. It allows getting and setting file attributes like name, path, length, and modification time. The Reader and Writer classes provide methods for reading and writing text files. The FileReader and FileWriter classes extend Reader and Writer for reading and writing files. The BufferedReader class builds on FileReader to provide efficient reading of lines. Similarly, the PrintWriter class extends Writer and provides print methods for writing different data types to files like println for strings.

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The "File" class

Constructor:

public File(String)

Example:

File f=new File("d:\\Assignments\\Test Papers\\Test Paper 2.docx");


OR
File f=new File("d:/Assignments/Test Papers/Test Paper 2.docx");

Methods Of "File" class

1. public boolean exists( )


2. public String getName( )
3. public boolean isFile( )
4. public boolean isDirectory( )
5. public boolean isHidden( )
6. public boolean canWrite( )

7. public boolean delete()


8. public long length()

9. public long lastModified()

10. public boolean mkdir()


11. public boolean mkdirs()

12.public String[ ] list( )

READING TEXT FILES

The "Reader" class


Methods:

1. public int read( ) throws IOException

2. public int read(char[ ]) throws IOException

3. public int read(char[ ],int off,int len )throws IOException

4. public boolean ready( ) throws IOException

5. public void close( ) throws IOException

6. public void reset( ) throws IOException

The "FileReader" class

Constructors:

1. public FileReader(String) throws FileNotFoundException

2. public FileReader(File) throws FileNotFoundException

The "BufferedReader" class

Constructor:

1. public BufferedReader(Reader)

Method:

1. public String readLine( ) throws IOException

Code:

FileReader fr=new FileReader("c:/message.txt");


BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(fr);

WRITING TEXT FILES

The "Writer" class

Methods:

1. public void write(int ) throws IOException


2. public void write(char[ ]) throws IOException

3. public abstract void write(char[ ],int off,int len )throws IOException

4. public void write(String) throws IOException

5.public void write(String,int off,int len) throws IOException

6. public abstract void close( ) throws IOException

7. public void flush( ) throws IOException

The "FileWriter" class

Constructors:

1. public FileWriter(String) throws IOException

2. public FileWriter(File) throws IOException

3. public FileWriter(String,boolean) throws IOException

4. public FileWriter(File,boolean) throws IOException

The "PrintWriter" class

This class is also the derived class of Writer but has got
"print( )" and "println( )" methods, just like System.out.
These methods are overloaded and can accept any kind of argument
and write it in the file.
Thus as a programmer we don't have to convert these values into Strings.

The Constructors of "PrintWriter" are:

1. public PrintWriter(String)
2. public PrintWriter(File)
3. public PrintWriter(Writer)

Methods Of "PrintWriter" are:


1. public void println(String) throws IOException
2. public void println(int) throws IOException
3. public void println(float) throws IOException
4. public void println(boolean) throws IOException

like this we have methods for every primitive type

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