Closing Streams

When you're done with a stream, you may want to close it to release any resources associated with the stream. Once the stream is closed attempts to read from it, will throw IOExceptions.

You close a stream with the close() method:

public void close() throws IOException

An IOException is thrown if the stream can't be closed.

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Last Modified May 10, 1997
Copyright 1997 Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@metalab.unc.edu