Java: An Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming, 8th Edition

Chapter Summary

• Files that are considered to be strings of characters and that look like characters to your program and to a text editor are called text files. All other files are called binary files.

• Your program can use the class PrintWriter to write to a text file and can use the class Scanner to read from a text file.

• When reading from a file, you should always check for the end of a file and do something appropriate if the end of the file is reached. The way you test for the end of a file depends on whether your program is reading from a text file or a binary file.

• You can read a file name from the keyboard into a variable of type String and use that variable in place of a file name.

• The class File can be used to see whether an existing ...