FilterReader.close() has the following syntax.
public void close() throws IOException
In the following code shows how to use FilterReader.close() method.
import java.io.FilterReader; import java.io.Reader; import java.io.StringReader; /*from w w w . j av a2 s . c o m*/ public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { int i = 0; Reader r = new StringReader("ABCDEFG"); // create new filter reader FilterReader fr = new FilterReader(r) { }; // read till the end of the stream while ((i = fr.read()) != -1) { char c = (char) i; System.out.println(c); } } }
The code above generates the following result.