Java FileReader Class

Java FileReader class is used to read data from the file. It returns data in byte format like FileInputStream class.

It is character-oriented class which is used for file handling in java.

Java FileReader class declaration

Let's see the declaration for Java.io.FileReader class:

Constructors of FileReader class

Methods of FileReader class

Java FileReader Example

In this example, we are reading the data from the text file testout.txt using Java FileReader class.

Here, we are assuming that you have following data in "testout.txt" file:

Welcome to javaTpoint. 

Output:

Welcome to javaTpoint.