Java IO Tutorial - Java BufferedReader.read()

Syntax

BufferedReader.read() has the following syntax.

public int read()  throws IOException

Example

In the following code shows how to use BufferedReader.read() method.

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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    InputStream is = new FileInputStream("c:/test.txt");

    InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);

    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);

    int value = 0;
    while ((value = br.read()) != -1) {
      char c = (char) value;
      System.out.println(c);
    }
  }
}