Difference between BufferedReader and BufferedInputStream

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What are the differences between BufferedReader , BufferedInputStream and Scanner in java? BufferedReader reads the text and BufferedInputStream reads byte. Is there any difference other than this?

Please, check this http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/index.html — Paul Vargas, May 03 '12 at 15:41
possible duplicate of [inputstream and reader in Java IO](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5764065/inputstream-and-reader-in-java-io) — skaffman, May 03 '12 at 16:45
Scanner is almost the same as any reader, but it has a lot of methods for parsing input and it's not thread safe — Kirill Bazarov, Apr 22 '14 at 13:43

score 18 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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I guess, the difference is the same as between reader and inputstream: one is character-based, another is byte-based. For example, reader normally supports encoding...

Edit: Check this question: The difference between InputStream and InputStreamReader when reading multi-byte characters

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answered May 03 '12 at 15:42

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score 9 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 24 '17 at 11:28

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BufferedInputStream reads the data in the buffer as bytes by using InputStream. BufferedReader reads the text but not as bytes and BufferedReader is efficient reading of characters,arrays and lines.

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answered Jun 11 '14 at 06:23

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Difference between BufferedReader and BufferedInputStream

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