Load a text file contents as a String in Java

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import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;



public class Main {



  /**
   * Load a text file contents as a <code>String<code>.
   * This method does not perform enconding conversions
   *
   * @param file The input file
   * @return The file contents as a <code>String</code>
   * @exception IOException IO Error
   */
  public static String deserializeString(File file)
  throws IOException {
      int len;
      char[] chr = new char[4096];
      final StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
      final FileReader reader = new FileReader(file);
      try {
          while ((len = reader.read(chr)) > 0) {
              buffer.append(chr, 0, len);
          }
      } finally {
          reader.close();
      }
      return buffer.toString();
  }

}