ajaykjha

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• Oct 16th, 2006

 

The FileInputStream class creates an InputStream that we can use to read bytes from a file. While the byte stream classes provide sufficient functionality to handle any type of I/O operation, they can't work directly with unicode characters. Since one of the main purposes of java is to support the "write once, run anywhere" philosphy, it was neccessary to include direct I/O support for characters. For this we use FileReader.

sivanesh.a

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• Dec 24th, 2006

 

FileInputStream: reading data as stream.

FileReader: reading data as binary

Thiyagarajan.N

• Mar 20th, 2007

 

FileInputStream is used to read the file byte by bytes. FileReader is used to read the file character by character.