Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Copyright 2014 Zhenguo Jin * <p/> * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * <p/> * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * <p/> * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; public class Main { public static List<String> readFileToList(String filePath, String charsetName) { File file = new File(filePath); List<String> fileContent = new ArrayList<String>(); if (!file.isFile()) { return null; } BufferedReader reader = null; try { InputStreamReader is = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file), charsetName); reader = new BufferedReader(is); String line = null; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { fileContent.add(line); } reader.close(); return fileContent; } catch (IOException e) { throw new RuntimeException("IOException occurred. ", e); } finally { if (reader != null) { try { reader.close(); } catch (IOException e) { throw new RuntimeException("IOException occurred. ", e); } } } } }