Chapter 17. Files, Streams and Object Serialization
I can only assume that a “Do Not File” document is filed in a “Do Not File” file.
—Senator Frank Church Senate Intelligence Subcommittee Hearing, 1975
Consciousness ... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. ... A “river” or a “stream” are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described.
—William James
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll learn:
• To create, read, write and update files.
• To retrieve information about files and directories.
• The Java input/output stream class hierarchy.
• The differences between text files and binary files.
• To use classes Scanner and Formatter to process text files.
• To use classes FileInputStream and FileOutputStream to read from and write ...
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