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BufferedWriter, PrinterWriter etc

 
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I am confused between the different methods available in I/O and their combination

1) PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter("text"));
2) BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("text"));

Can someone help me list out all the possible combinations in the case of readers and writers?

Thanks
 
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You can look at the javadocs of each of those classes to find the common -and the different- methods of each.
 
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Exactly where the confusion starts...there are so many combination. Is there a easier way to list it?
 
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For the exam you need to know

FileReader
BufferedReader
FileWriter
BufferedWriter
PrintWriter

Readers and Writers are used to write characters. Writing bytes is done by streams which is not in exam.

Without Using Readers and Writer you can create a file like this



Using FileWriter and FileReader



To Read an object, create a character array to store the input read by the file..as below.



Notice, while writing data we manually used line separators in fw.write("hello\nworld");
Even while reading, we put it into character array, where we need to declare the size intially.

So..usually reader and writer are wrapped and then used. Its a less painful way of writing and reading data to and from file.




Instead of using a BufferedWriter we can use a PrintWriter instead.it has println() method..that is more easier to write.

You just need to repalce the BufferedWriter code above with




To read using BufferedReader



Classes being used to help each other in this manner can be seen in IO extensively, also known as Decorator Pattern.
 
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