Java Text File Read Line readLines(String file)

Description

Read all lines of text in a file.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
file	File pathname

Return

String vector that contains all lines

Declaration

public static Vector readLines(String file) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**// w  w  w . j  av  a  2 s  .co m
 * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Vector;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Read all lines of text in a file.  A line is considered to be
     * terminated by any one of a line feed ('\n'), a carriage return ('\r'),
     * or a carriage return followed immediately by a linefeed
     *
     * @param file File pathname
     * @return String vector that contains all lines
     */
    public static Vector readLines(String file) throws IOException {
        Vector contents = new Vector();

        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));

        while (true) {
            String line = in.readLine();
            if (line == null) {
                break;
            } else {
                contents.addElement(line);
            }
        }

        in.close();
        return contents;
    }
}

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2. readLines(final File file)
3. readlines(final File file)
4. readLines(int problemNumber)
5. readLines(String body)
6. readLines(String file)
7. readLines(String file, ArrayList lines)
8. readLines(String filename)
9. readLines(String fileName)