InputStream & InputStreamReader

[dinosaur]

I read your notes and I have a question. What is the difference between
InputStream and
InputStreamReader? Because I found that both of them read users' input in
ASCII values but not
character

 

[Herman Timmermans]

I read your notes and I have a question. What is the difference between
InputStream and
InputStreamReader? Because I found that both of them read users' input in
ASCII values but not
character

InputStream:
A low-level input stream reads bytes from an input device and returns bytes
to its caller. So basicly this is an abstract calss that defines the basic
functionality for reading an unstructured sequence of bytes.
InputStreamReader:
Is like a filter input stream. It reads bytes from the InputStream and
returns Unicode characters. It is a "bridge" that converts bytes to
characters. Remember, that in Unicode a charcter is not a byte!

Hope this helps,
Herman