java try finally block to close stream

Question

I want to close my stream in the finally block, but it throws an IOException so it seems like I have to nest another try block in my finally block in order to close the stream. Is that the right way to do it? It seems a bit clunky.

Here's the code:

 public void read() {     try {         r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(address.openStream()));         String inLine;         while ((inLine = r.readLine()) != null) {             System.out.println(inLine);         }     } catch (IOException readException) {         readException.printStackTrace();     } finally {         try {             if (r!=null) r.close();         } catch (Exception e){             e.printStackTrace();         }     }   } 

Answer 1

Also if you're using Java 7, you can use a try-with-resources statement:

try(BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(address.openStream()))) {     String inLine;     while ((inLine = r.readLine()) != null) {         System.out.println(inLine);     } } catch(IOException readException) {     readException.printStackTrace(); }