Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Apache License import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.IOException; public class Main { /** * Read file * * @param filePath * The path of the file * @return StringBuilder Return file content as StringBuffer, if the file * doesn't exist return null */ public static StringBuilder readFile(String filePath) { File file = new File(filePath); StringBuilder fileContent = new StringBuilder(""); if (file != null && file.isFile()) { BufferedReader reader = null; try { reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file)); String line = null; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { if (!fileContent.toString().equals("")) { fileContent.append("\r\n"); } fileContent.append(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); } } } } return null; } }