Java IO Tutorial - Java FilterInputStream.read()

Syntax

FilterInputStream.read() has the following syntax.

public int read()  throws IOException

Example

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

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FilterInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
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public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    int i = 0;
    char c;

    // create input streams
    InputStream is = new FileInputStream("C://test.txt");
    FilterInputStream fis = new BufferedInputStream(is);

    // read till the end of the stream
    while ((i = fis.read()) != -1) {
      // converts integer to character
      c = (char) i;

      System.out.println("Character read: " + c);
    }

  }
}