Java Utililty Methods Text File Read

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(path), "UTF-8"));
String data = new String();
try {
    String line;
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
        data = data.concat(line);
} finally {
...

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int c = reader.read(); c >= 0; c = reader.read()) {
    sb.append((char) c);
return sb.toString();

try (InputStream stream = new FileInputStream(filePath)) {
    return getTextStreamContents(stream);
} catch (final IOException ex) {
    throw new IllegalArgumentException(ex);

File file = new File(filePath);
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);
if (!scanner.hasNext()) {
    return null;
return scanner.useDelimiter("\\Z").next();

File file = new File(filePath);
if (file.exists() && !file.isDirectory()) {
    try (Scanner fileScanner = new Scanner(file)) {
        List<String> lines = new ArrayList<>();
        while (fileScanner.hasNextLine()) {
            lines.add(fileScanner.nextLine());
        fileScanner.close();
...

StringBuffer contents = new StringBuffer();
BufferedReader input = null;
input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(filePath)));
String line = null; 
while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
    contents.append(line);
    contents.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
return contents.toString();

Vector<String> words = new Vector<String>();
try {
    FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream(path);
    DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
    String strLine;
    while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
        words.add(strLine);
...

BufferedReader br = null;
String content = "";
try {
    String sCurrentLine;
    br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(pathToFile));
    while ((sCurrentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
        content += sCurrentLine + "\r\n";
} finally {
    if (br != null)
        br.close();
return content;

String fileContents = null;
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(pFileName);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
StringBuffer xml = new StringBuffer();
String aLine = null;
while ((aLine = reader.readLine()) != null) {
    xml.append(aLine);
    xml.append("\n");
...

final StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
try {
    final BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(location));
    String buffer = "";
    while ((buffer = reader.readLine()) != null) {
        result.append(buffer).append("\n");
    reader.close();
...