Reading Files - Beginning Java - page 506

You have mark() , reset() , and markSupported() methods available for a buffered reader that work in
the same way as for a buffered input stream. Let's see a BufferedReader object in action.

TRY IT OUT: Reading a File Using a Buffered Reader
This example uses a BufferedReader object to read the Sayings.txt file that you wrote in the previous
chapter using a BufferedWriter object:

import java.io.*;
import java.nio.file.*;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;

public class ReaderInputFromFile {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Path file = Paths.get(System.getProperty("user.home")).
resolve("Beginning Java
Stuff").resolve("Sayings.txt");
if(!Files.exists(file)) {
System.out.println(file + " does not exist. Terminating
program.");
System.exit(1);;

}

try(BufferedReader fileIn =
new BufferedReader(Files.newBufferedReader(
file,

Charset.forName("UTF-16")))){
String saying = null; // Stores a saying

int totalRead = 0; // Acumulates number of

sayings
// Read sayings until we reach reach EOF
while((saying = fileIn.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(saying);
++totalRead; // Increment count

}
System.out.format("%d sayings read.%n", totalRead);
} catch(IOException e) {
System.err.println("Error writing file: " + file);
e.printStackTrace();

}

}

}

ReaderInputFromFile.java

I got the following output: