01: /*
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03: * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
04: *
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10: *
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13: * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
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20: *
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24: */
25:
26: package java.io;
27:
28: /**
29: * Convenience class for reading character files. The constructors of this
30: * class assume that the default character encoding and the default byte-buffer
31: * size are appropriate. To specify these values yourself, construct an
32: * InputStreamReader on a FileInputStream.
33: *
34: * <p><code>FileReader</code> is meant for reading streams of characters.
35: * For reading streams of raw bytes, consider using a
36: * <code>FileInputStream</code>.
37: *
38: * @see InputStreamReader
39: * @see FileInputStream
40: *
41: * @version 1.22, 07/05/05
42: * @author Mark Reinhold
43: * @since JDK1.1
44: */
45: public class FileReader extends InputStreamReader {
46:
47: /**
48: * Creates a new <tt>FileReader</tt>, given the name of the
49: * file to read from.
50: *
51: * @param fileName the name of the file to read from
52: * @exception FileNotFoundException if the named file does not exist,
53: * is a directory rather than a regular file,
54: * or for some other reason cannot be opened for
55: * reading.
56: */
57: public FileReader(String fileName) throws FileNotFoundException {
58: super (new FileInputStream(fileName));
59: }
60:
61: /**
62: * Creates a new <tt>FileReader</tt>, given the <tt>File</tt>
63: * to read from.
64: *
65: * @param file the <tt>File</tt> to read from
66: * @exception FileNotFoundException if the file does not exist,
67: * is a directory rather than a regular file,
68: * or for some other reason cannot be opened for
69: * reading.
70: */
71: public FileReader(File file) throws FileNotFoundException {
72: super (new FileInputStream(file));
73: }
74:
75: /**
76: * Creates a new <tt>FileReader</tt>, given the
77: * <tt>FileDescriptor</tt> to read from.
78: *
79: * @param fd the FileDescriptor to read from
80: */
81: public FileReader(FileDescriptor fd) {
82: super (new FileInputStream(fd));
83: }
84:
85: }
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