Good practice in Java File I/O

Question

I am trying to read integers from a file, apply some operation on them and writing those resulting integers to another file. ``` // Input FileReader fr = new FileReader("test.txt"); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr); Scanner s = new Scanner(br); // Output FileWriter fw = new FileWriter("out.txt"); BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw); PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(bw); int i; while(s.hasNextInt()) { i = s.nextInt(); pw.println(i+5); } ``` I want to ask is it a good practice to wrap these input and output streams like this? I am new to java and on internet, I saw lots of other ways of I/O in files. I want to stick to one approach so is above the best approach ?

Accepted Answer

- Well consider that you went shopping into a food mall, Now what you do usually, pick-up each item from the selves and then go to the billing counter then again go to the selves and back to billing counter ....?? Or Store all the item into a Cart then go to the billing counter.

- Its similar here in Java, `Files` deal with bytes, and `Buffer` deals with characters, so there is a conversion of bytes to characters and trust me it works well, there will not be any noticeable overhead.

So to Read the File:

```
File f = new File("Path");
FileReader fr = new FileReader(f);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
```

So to Write the File:

```
File f = new File("Path");
FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(f);
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw);
```

And when you use `Scanner` there is no need to use `BufferedReader`

Good practice in Java File I/O

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