FileInputStream(String name) constructor from FileInputStream has the following syntax.
public FileInputStream(String name) throws FileNotFoundException
In the following code shows how to use FileInputStream.FileInputStream(String name) constructor.
/*w ww . ja v a2s . co m*/ import java.io.IOException; import java.io.FileInputStream; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("C://test.txt"); // skip bytes from file input stream fis.skip(4); // read bytes from this stream int i = fis.read(); // converts integer to character char c = (char) i; System.out.print("Character read: " + c); } }