Given the path to a file in the specified encoding, returns a single string with the contents of that file. - Java File Path IO

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Description

Given the path to a file in the specified encoding, returns a single string with the contents of that file.

Demo Code

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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Vector;
import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;

public class Main{
    /**
     * Given the path to a file in the specified encoding, returns a single string
     * with the contents of that file.
     *
     * @param filePath The local path to the file
     *
     * @param encoding The encoding name: UTF8, UTF16, etc.
     */
    static public String readUnicodeFile(String filePath, String encoding)
            throws DataUtilException {
        // This code copied directly from the Java tutorial
        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
        try {
            FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(filePath);
            InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis, encoding);
            Reader in = new BufferedReader(isr);
            int ch;
            while ((ch = in.read()) > -1) {
                buffer.append((char) ch);
            }
            in.close();
            return buffer.toString();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new DataUtilException("IOException: " + e.getMessage()
                    + " for file '" + filePath + "'", e);
        }
    }
}

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