Here you can find the source of readFile(String fileName)
public static String readFile(String fileName) throws Exception
//package com.java2s; /*/* ww w.j a v a 2 s . c o m*/ * Copyright (C) 2014 Sheng Cao <sca6096@gmail.com>. All rights reserved. * * The file is part of English-Semantics-Extraction. * * English-Semantics-Extraction is free software: you can redistribute it * and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU 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 General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. * * Please contact sca6096@gmail.com if you need additional information * or have any questions. */ import java.io.*; public class Main { public static String readFile(String fileName) throws Exception { BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(fileName), "UTF-8")); StringBuilder fin = new StringBuilder(); for (;;) { int cur = in.read(); if (cur < 0) break; fin.append((char) cur); } return fin.toString(); } }