Java FileReader Read readFile(String filename)

Description

Returns the content of the file with the specified name as a string.

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String readFile(String filename) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//from   ww  w . j a  va2  s .  c  om
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 * Copyright (c) 2010 Technische Universitaet Berlin
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import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileReader;

import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Returns the content of the specified file as a string.
     */

    public static String readFile(File file) throws IOException {
        FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file);
        char[] ioBuffer = new char[1024];
        StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder();
        int length = -1;
        while ((length = fileReader.read(ioBuffer)) != -1)
            content.append(ioBuffer, 0, length);
        return content.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the content of the file with the specified name as a string.
     */

    public static String readFile(String filename) throws IOException {
        return readFile(new File(filename));
    }
}

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