Constructing FileInputStream to read from a Text File : FileInputStream « File « Java Tutorial

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import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;

public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] a) {
    File aFile = new File("charData.txt");
    FileInputStream inFile = null;
    try {
      inFile = new FileInputStream(aFile);
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
      e.printStackTrace(System.err);
      System.exit(1);
    }
    FileChannel inChannel = inFile.getChannel();
  }
}