Closing a buffered character stream

Hi all!

I have the following

public void somemethod(){

some code

out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(filename));

some code

out.close

}

if an exception occurs, I have to close the stream. But the problem is, how can I close a stream if it had not been opened before. trying to do so would launch a new Exception?

How can I test if my stream is opened before closing it?

[449 byte] By [charllescubaa] at [2007-11-27 10:17:08]