Reads/writes text as a character stream, buffering characters so as to provide for the efficient rea

Reads/writes text as a character stream, buffering characters so as to provide for the efficient reading/writing of characters, arrays, and lines. The buffer size may be specified, or the default size may be used. The default is large enough for most purposes. In general, each read request made of a Reader causes a corresponding read request to be made of the underlying character or byte stream. It is therefore advisable to wrap a BufferedReader around any Reader whose read() operations may be costly, such as FileReaders and InputStreamReaders.