Practice Reading From A File (11.4) - Basic File Handling

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Question 1.
What class is used to read text files in Java?
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It's part of Java's IO package.
Question 2.
What method do we call to read a line from the BufferedReader?
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Think about how lines are stored in writing.
3Question 3.
What does the BufferedReader's readLine() method return?
- The whole file
- One line of text
- Nothing
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What is your understanding of lines in file reading?
4Question 4.
Is it necessary to close a BufferedReader after usage?
- True
- False
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What happens to open resources in programming?
Question 5.
Write a program that reads a file line by line and counts how many times a specific word appears in the file.
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Think about storing the count in a variable while reading.
Question 6.
If you encounter a FileNotFoundException when attempting to read from a file, how would you modify your code to address this issue?
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Consider how you inform the user when the file isn’t found.

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