public void close() Method

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Description

The java.io.FilterInputStream.close() method closes this input stream and releases any system resources associated with the stream.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for public void close() method −

public void close()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

The method does not return any value.

Exception

IOException − If an I/O error occurs.

Example

The following example shows the usage of public void close() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FilterInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

public class FilterInputStreamDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      InputStream is = null; 
      FilterInputStream fis = null; 
      
      try {
         // create input streams
         is = new FileInputStream("C://test.txt");
         fis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
         
         // closes and releases the associated system resources
         fis.close();
         
         // read is called after close() invocation
         fis.read();
         
      } catch(IOException e) {
         
         System.out.print("stream is closed prior ot this call");
      } finally {
         // releases any system resources associated with the stream
         if(is!=null)
            is.close();
         if(fis!=null)
            fis.close();
      }
   }
}

Assuming we have a text file c:/test.txt, which has the following content. This file will be used as an input for our example program −

ABCDEF

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

stream is closed prior ot this call