Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class Main { public static String loadFile(File f) throws IOException { FileInputStream stream = new FileInputStream(f); InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(stream, "UTF-8"); char[] cData = new char[(int) f.length()]; reader.read(cData); return new String(cData).trim(); } }