Can a File Object Alone Read a File?

[Punkyc7]

Can a File object alone be used to read a file?

I am thinking it is no because don't you have to use the scanner class to get the data from the file?

I have tried looking for this online but haven't been able to find the answer.

 

[Punkyc7]

I should probably add this is in java

 

[Mark44]

Can a File object alone be used to read a file?

I am thinking it is no because don't you have to use the scanner class to get the data from the file?

I have tried looking for this online but haven't been able to find the answer.

I should probably add this is in java

Yes, that would be good to do.

The File class has no methods for reading (or writing to) a File instance. For the methods on the File class, see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/io/File.html.