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Asked: 2026-06-01T17:52:07+00:00

I had to switch my school project JDK 1.7 to 1.6. I created a

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I had to switch my school project JDK 1.7 to 1.6. I created a new project on platform 1.6 and copied all packed in my project and seems like 1.6 doesn’t support this kind of buffered reader, any help please? I need to read from a file in src. if I use Scanner should I be fine?

try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(sDataPath))){

Error " Resource specification not allowed here for source level below 1.7"
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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s not a matter of BufferedReader being a problem – it’s your try-with-resources statement, which was introduced in Java 7. You’ll need to close the reader manually:

    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(sDataPath));
try {
    ...
} finally {
    reader.close();
}

    As an aside, I’d advise against using FileReader – use an InputStreamReader wrapping a FileInputStream so you can specify the encoding.

    Oh, and if you’re allowed to use external libraries, you may find that Guava will make your resource handling simpler 🙂

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