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

Character stream

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 more information, see:

- Character Streams
- Level 1 Study Materials: Unit 2
- Level 1 Study Materials: Unit 3