Java BufferedReader Read readFile(String absoluteFilePath)

Description

Read the contents of a file

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
absoluteFilePath	: The absolute path of the file from which to read.

Return

: The contents of the file as a String.

Declaration

public static String readFile(String absoluteFilePath) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2009 Red Hat, Inc./*from ww w  .ja  v a2 s  .co  m*/
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     Red Hat - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;

import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Read the contents of a file
     * @param absoluteFilePath : The absolute path of the file from which to read.
     * @return : The contents of the file as a String.
     */
    public static String readFile(String absoluteFilePath) {

        try (BufferedReader bw = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(
                new File(absoluteFilePath)))) {
            String output = ""; //$NON-NLS-1$
            String tmp = ""; //$NON-NLS-1$
            while ((tmp = bw.readLine()) != null) {
                output += tmp + "\n"; //$NON-NLS-1$
            }
            bw.close();

            return output;
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }
}

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