Java Utililty Methods InputStreamReader Read

try {
    return readFile(new FileInputStream(f));
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
return null;

StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
Reader in = null;
try {
    in = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(f), "utf-8"); 
    int c = 0;
    while ((c = in.read()) >= 0) {
        result.append((char) c);
} finally {
    if (in != null) {
        in.close();
return result.toString();

Reader in = new FileReader(file);
StringWriter out = new StringWriter();
copy(in, out);
return out.toString();

return readFile(file, null);

LinkedList<String> ret = new LinkedList<String>();
FileInputStream fis = null;
InputStreamReader isr = null;
BufferedReader br = null;
try {
    fis = new FileInputStream(file);
    isr = new InputStreamReader(fis);
    br = new BufferedReader(isr);
...

return readFile(file, UTF8);

Read an entire file into a string.

Reader reader = new FileReader(file);
return readFile(reader);

FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(file);
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
String thisLine = "";
BufferedReader myInput = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fin));
while ((thisLine = myInput.readLine()) != null) {
    result.append(thisLine);
    result.append("\n");
myInput.close();
fin.close();
return result;

Reader in = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file), "UTF-8");
StringBuilder buff = new StringBuilder();
int c;
while ((c = in.read()) != -1) {
    buff.append((char) c);
in.close();
return buff.toString();
...

BufferedReader br = null;
DataInputStream in = null;
StringBuffer sBuffer = new StringBuffer();
try {
    in = new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
    br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
    String sCurrentLine = null;
    while ((sCurrentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
...