Java File to String readFileAsString(String fname)

Description

read File As String

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String readFileAsString(String fname) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*  w w w .  j  a  v  a2  s .c  o m*/
 * Copyright (c) 2013. Chandra Tungaturthi
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

import java.io.*;

import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class Main {
    public final static String WORD_BREAK = " ";
    public final static String LINE_BREAK = System.getProperty("line.separator");
    private static final Logger mylogger = Logger.getLogger("com.lia.core");

    public static String readFileAsString(String fname) {

        return readFile(new File(fname), true);
    }

    public static String readFileAsString(File f) {

        return readFile(f, true);
    }

    /**
     *
     * @param f - file name
     * @return File contents as string
     */
    private static String readFile(File f, boolean preserveLineBreaks) {

        StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder();
        String line = null;
        BufferedReader br = null;
        try {

            mylogger.log(Level.INFO, "Reading: [{0}] File: [{1}]",
                    new Object[] { f.getName(), f.getAbsolutePath() });
            br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(f));
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                if (preserveLineBreaks) {
                    content.append(line).append(LINE_BREAK);

                } else {
                    content.append(line).append(WORD_BREAK);
                }
            }

        } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
            mylogger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Error:", ex);
        } finally {

            try {

                br.close();
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                mylogger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Error:", ex);
            }
            return content.toString();
        }
    }
}

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