Difference between buffered reader and file reader

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And as per question for reading a text file you should use BufferedReader because Scanner hides IOException while BufferedReader throws it immediately.

BufferedReader is synchronized and Scanner is not.

Scanner:- is used for parsing tokens from the contents of the stream.

BufferedReader:- BufferedReader just reads the stream.

Anonymous User · Answer

FileReader is just a Reader which reads a file, using the platform-default encoding (urgh)BufferedReader is a wrapper around another Reader, adding buffering and the ability to read a line at a timeScanner reads from a variety of different sources, but is typically used for interactive input. Personally I find the API of Scanner to be pretty painful and obscure.To read a text file, I would suggest using a FileInputStream wrapped in an InputStreamReader (so you can specify the encoding) and then wrapped in a BufferedReader for buffering and the ability to read a line at a time.

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