Android Context Get readRaw(Context ctx, int res_id)

Description

Method to read in a text file placed in the res/raw directory of the application.

Declaration

public static void readRaw(Context ctx, int res_id) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;

import android.content.Context;

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Main {
    /**/*from   w  w w .j  av a2s.  c  o m*/
     * Method to read in a text file placed in the res/raw directory of the
     * application. The method reads in all lines of the file sequentially.
     */

    public static void readRaw(Context ctx, int res_id) {

        InputStream is = ctx.getResources().openRawResource(res_id);
        InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr, 8192); // 2nd arg is buffer
        // size

        // More efficient (less readable) implementation of above is the
        // composite expression
        /*
         * BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
         * this.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.textfile)), 8192);
         */

        try {
            String test;
            while (true) {
                test = br.readLine();
                // readLine() returns null if no more lines in the file
                if (test == null)
                    break;
            }
            isr.close();
            is.close();
            br.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
}

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