Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Apache License import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class Main { public static String readFile(File file) throws Exception { StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(); try { FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fis, "UTF-8")); String line = null; while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(line); } fis.close(); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } if (sb.toString().trim().length() <= 0) return null; return sb.toString(); } }