How to do multiple Exception handling while reading characters from a text file?

Question

I have referred to earlier threads regarding multiple Exception handling in Java. Yet, when I try to implement in on my code, it fails to compile.

try {
    br = new BufferedReader( new FileReader(file_name));
    while((r = br.read()) != -1){
        char c = (char) r;
        System.out.print(c);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e ){
    System.out.println("The file was not found.");
    System.exit(0);
} catch (IOException e){
    System.out.println("There was an error reading the file.");
    System.exit(0);
}

Now I know FileNotFoundException is a special case of IOException and must have multiple catch blocks which is exactly what I am doing, yet, the compiler is not letting me compile it.

Answer 1

You forgot } to close your while loop. Please correct it. It should be like this:

try {
    br = new BufferedReader( new FileReader(file_name));
    while((r = br.read()) != -1){
        char c = (char) r;
        System.out.print(c);
     }
} catch (FileNotFoundException e ){
    System.out.println("The file was not found.");
    System.exit(0);
} catch (IOException e){
    System.out.println("There was an error reading the file.");
    System.exit(0);
}