closing nested streams [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: Best way to close nested streams in Java? How we close nested streams? Closing all of them? If yes what is the order? FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("data.txt", true); PrintWriter pout = new PrintWriter(out); /* do some I/O */ pout.close(); out.close(); or closing the the out most stream will close all of them. pout.close(); // Is this enough? MD Sayem Ahmed When closing chained streams, you only need to close the outermost stream. Any errors will be propagated up the chain and be caught. Take a look at here . Probably this question has been asked before.