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Q1. What is the difference between the Reader/Writer class hierarchy and the InputStream/OutputStream class hierarchy?

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Ans. The Reader/Writer class hierarchy is character-oriented, and the InputStream/OutputStream class hierarchy is byte-oriented

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Q2. Which class is used to read streams of characters from a file?

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Ans. FileReader

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Q3. Name few Reader classes ?

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Ans. http://www.buggybread.com/2015/01/java-input-reader-classes-and-interfaces.html

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Q4. Difference between Scanner and BufferedReader ? Which one is faster and Why ?

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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.

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Q5. How does encoding affect using Reader / writer classes or Stream classes in Java ?

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Q6. Write a program that reads file using FileReader and BufferedReader

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Ans. File file = new File("/home/sample.txt");
FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file);
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}

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