Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class Main { public static String readFileAsString(File file) throws IOException { FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(file); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fin)); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String line = null; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(line).append("\n"); } fin.close(); return sb.toString(); } }