Java BufferedReader Read readFile(String filePath)

Description

Method that reads a file and returns the resulting String

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
filePath	a parameter

Return

String the content of the file read

Declaration

public static String readFile(String filePath) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*// w ww.  j a  v a 2  s  .  com
 * Copyright (c) 2012 Diamond Light Source Ltd.
 *
 * 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
 */

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

public class Main {
    /**
     * Method that reads a file and returns the resulting String
     * @param filePath
     * @return String
     *       the content of the file read
     */
    public static String readFile(String filePath) {
        StringBuilder contents = new StringBuilder();

        try {
            // use buffering, reading one line at a time
            // FileReader always assumes default encoding is OK!
            BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filePath));
            try {
                String line = null;
                int i = 0;
                while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
                    if (i > 0)
                        contents.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
                    contents.append(line);
                    i++;
                }

            } finally {
                input.close();
            }
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

        return contents.toString();
    }
}

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