Common methods of the BufferedReader class
| Constructors | Throws | Description |
| readLine() | IOException | Reads a line of text and returns it as a string |
| read() | IOException | Reads a single character and returns it as a int that represents the ASCII code for the character. -1 will be returned if EOF |
| skip(longValue) | IOException | Attempts to skip the specified number of characters, and returns an int value for the actual number of characters skipped. |
| close() | IOException | Close the input stream and flushes the buffer. |
Example 1: Code that reads the records in a text file
// read the records of the file String line = in.readLine(); while(line !=null) { System.out.println(line); line = in.readLine(); } // close the input stream in.close();
More info can be found here: http://www.j2ee.me/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/BufferedReader.html