Java BufferedReader Read readFile(String file)

Description

Read the content of a file pointed by the input absolute file path.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
file	a parameter

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	an exception

Declaration

public static String readFile(String file) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//  w ww.  jav a2 s.  c  o  m
 * Copyright (C) 2016  Arun Kumar Selvaraj
    
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
 */

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Read the content of a file pointed by the input absolute file path. And
     * return the file content as text
     * 
     * @param file
     * @return
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static String readFile(String file) throws IOException {
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
        String line = null;
        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

        try {
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                stringBuilder.append(line);
            }

            return stringBuilder.toString().trim();
        } finally {
            reader.close();
        }
    }
}

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