Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * This file is part of Butter. * * Butter is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * Butter is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with Butter. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class Main { /** * Get contents of a file as String * * @param filePath File path as String * @return Contents of the file * @throws IOException */ public static String getContentsAsString(String filePath) throws IOException { File fl = new File(filePath); FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(fl); String ret = convertStreamToString(fin); //Make sure you close all streams. fin.close(); return ret; } /** * Convert an {@link InputStream} to a String * * @param inputStream InputStream * @return String contents of the InputStream * @throws IOException */ private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException { BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream)); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String line; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(line).append("\n"); } reader.close(); return sb.toString(); } }