Java tutorial
import java.io.*; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { try { String s = "Hello world from java2s.com"; RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile("c:/test.txt", "rw"); // write something in the file raf.writeUTF(s); // set the file pointer at 0 position raf.seek(0); // create an array equal to the length of raf byte[] arr = new byte[(int) raf.length()]; // read the file raf.readFully(arr); // create a new string based on arr String s2 = new String(arr); System.out.println(s2); raf.close(); } catch (IOException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } }