Java FileInputStream : Byte Streams

Java program uses byte stream to perform the different input and output operations on the bytes. Java byte stream classes are descendant of InputStream and OutputStream.

Java FileInputStream : Byte Streams

  1. FileInputStream obtains the input bytes from the file.
  2. The Java.io.FileInputStream class is used to get input bytes from a file
  3. FileInputStream is usually used for reading streams of raw bytes such as image data

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Program : Java FileInputStream - Byte Streams

package com.examples.basic;
import java.io.*;
class ReadFile {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    try {
      FileInputStream fin = new 
            FileInputStream("src/files/input.txt");
      int i;
      while ((i = fin.read()) != -1)
        System.out.print((char) i + " ");
      fin.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.out.println(e);
    }
  }
}

Output :

J a v a   i s   O O P   L a n g u a g e .

Explanation :

In the above example, we need to create one text file called input.txt whose content is like this -

Java is OOP Language.

Now we need to place this file such that we can have correct relative path -

Package Structure InputStreamReader

We must give relative path by taking src as root folder. Otherwise we will get following error -

java.io.FileNotFoundException: input.txt 
         (The system cannot find the file specified)

In the next tutorial we will be learning the FileOutputStream.