Java InputStreamReader Create readTextFile(File path)

Description

Read a text file from a given path

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
path	a parameter

Declaration

public static String readTextFile(File path) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Main {
    /**//w  ww.j  a  v a2  s  . c  o m
     * Read a text file from a given path
     * @param path
     * @return
     */
    public static String readTextFile(File path) {
        try {
            FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream(path);
            BufferedReader bin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));

            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            String line = null;
            while ((line = bin.readLine()) != null) {
                sb.append(line);
                // re-add line separator
                sb.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
            }

            bin.close();

            return sb.toString();

        } catch (IOException e) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}

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