Title: Key Concept - Character stream
Course: CPS 189: Java Certification - Review, Practice & Prepare (Development) > Section: Learning Modules

A character stream reads or writes one character at a time.

- Classes FileReader and FileWriter provide character streams for reading from and writing to files, respectively.
- Classes BufferedReader and BufferedWriter provide buffers for reading and writing blocks of characters at a time, respectively.
- Character streams are subclasses of abstract classes Reader and Writer, and operate as byte streams.

For additional study, view resources under:

- Level 2 Study Materials: Unit 2
- Level 2 Study Materials: Unit 3