Java File Content Read getFileContent(File file)

Description

get File Content

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String getFileContent(File file) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;

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

public class Main {
    public static String getFileContent(File file) {

        StringBuilder contents = new StringBuilder();

        try {/* w  w w  .  ja  v  a2 s. co m*/
            //use buffering, reading one line at a time
            //FileReader always assumes default encoding is OK!
            BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
            try {
                String line = null; //not declared within while loop
                /*
                 * readLine is a bit quirky :
                 * it returns the content of a line MINUS the newline.
                 * it returns null only for the END of the stream.
                 * it returns an empty String if two newlines appear in a row.
                 */
                while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
                    contents.append(line);
                    contents.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
                }
            } finally {
                input.close();
            }
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

        return contents.toString();
    }
}

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