Java Utililty Methods BufferedReader Read

try (final BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName))) {
    final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    String line = br.readLine();
    while (line != null) {
        sb.append(line);
        sb.append("\n");
        line = br.readLine();
    return sb.toString();

List<String> data = new ArrayList<String>();
BufferedReader br = null;
String line = null;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
try {
    br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
    line = br.readLine();
    if (line != null) {
...

final List<String> result = new ArrayList<String>();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
try {
    String line;
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
        if (skipEmptyLine && line.trim().length() == 0) {
            continue;
        result.add(line);
} finally {
    br.close();
return (String[]) result.toArray(new String[0]);

ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
BufferedReader result;
try {
    result = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(basePath + fileName));
    while (true) {
        String line = result.readLine();
        if (line == null) {
            break;
...

StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
try {
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
    String s;
    while ((s = in.readLine()) != null) {
        if (commentFlag != null && s.trim().startsWith(commentFlag)) {
            continue;
        sb.append(s);
        sb.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
    in.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
    System.exit(-1);
return sb;

StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
try {
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
    String s;
    while ((s = in.readLine()) != null) {
        if (commentFlag != null && s.trim().startsWith(commentFlag)) {
            continue;
        sb.append(s);
        sb.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
    in.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
return sb;

ArrayList<String> lines = null;
FileReader fr = null;
BufferedReader br = null;
try {
    fr = new FileReader(new File(fileNm));
    br = new BufferedReader(fr);
    lines = new ArrayList<String>();
    String line = null;
...

StringBuffer stringBuffer = null;
try {
    FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(new File(filePath));
    BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
    stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
    String line;
    while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
        stringBuffer.append(line);
...

StringBuilder contents = new StringBuilder();
try {
    BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filePath));
    try {
        String line = null;
        int i = 0;
        while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
            if (i > 0)
...

BufferedReader reader = null;
try {
    reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filePath));
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    String line;
    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
        sb.append(line);
        sb.append("\n");
...