Reading in/writing out escape characters from/to file

I am trying to read in a large file which has many escape/special charaters (e.g. /, double quote (" ") etc.). I need to read them as they are and then write them out in a separate file as they were in the original file (e.g. if there was a double quote in the original file, I would have to keep the double quote in the output file)
Now my question is: how can we tell the BufferedReader and FileWriter not to treat those characters to be escape characters?
Thanks

Now my question is: how can we tell the
BufferedReader and FileWriter not to treat those
characters to be escape characters?AFAIK, you don't need to do anything special. BR and FW already do that the right way.
Did you try the standard approach?

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