Tells whether this stream supports the mark() operation, which it does.

  Reads characters into an array.

  Reads characters into an array. This method will block until some input
is available, an I/O error occurs, or the end of the stream is reached.
Returns: The number of characters read, or -1 if the end of the stream has been reached
Parameters:
- cbuf - Destination buffer
Throws:
- IOException - If an I/O error occurs

  Attempts to read characters into the specified character buffer.

  Attempts to read characters into the specified character buffer.
The buffer is used as a repository of characters as-is: the only
changes made are the results of a put operation. No flipping or
rewinding of the buffer is performed.
Returns: The number of characters added to the buffer, or -1 if this source of characters is at its end
Parameters:
- target - the buffer to read characters into
Throws:
- IOException - if an I/O error occurs
- NullPointerException - if target is null
- ReadOnlyBufferException - if target is a read only buffer
Since: 1.5

  Reads a line of text.

  Reads a line of text. A line is considered to be terminated by any one
of a line feed ('\n'), a carriage return ('\r'), or a carriage return
followed immediately by a linefeed.
Returns: A String containing the contents of the line, not including any line-termination characters, or null if the end of the stream has been reached
Parameters:
- ignoreLF - If true, the next '\n' will be skipped
Throws:
- IOException - If an I/O error occurs
See Also: LineNumberReader.readLine(),

  Tells whether this stream is ready to be read.

  Tells whether this stream is ready to be read. A buffered character
stream is ready if the buffer is not empty, or if the underlying
character stream is ready.
Throws:
- IOException - If an I/O error occurs