Difference between Scanner and BufferedReader ? Which one is faster and Why ?

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Q1. Difference between Scanner and BufferedReader ? Which one is faster and Why ?

Ans. Scanner is used for parsing tokens from the contents of the stream while BufferedReader just reads the stream.

BufferedReader read files efficiently by using a buffer to avoid physical disk operations.

Buffer size of Scanner is usually smaller than the Buffered Writer.

BufferedReader is faster that Scanner as it just reads the Stream and doesn't Parse the tokens to read the stream into primitive data types.

Sample Code for Scanner

Sample Code for BufferedReader

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