how many ways to read a file in java?


The number of total classes of Java I/O is large, and it is easy to get confused when to use which. The following are methods for reading a file line by line.

Read a file line by line

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private static void (File fin) throws IOException {
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fin);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fis));
String line = null;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
br.close();
}
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private static void readFile2(File fin) throws IOException {
// Construct BufferedReader from FileReader
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fin));
String line = null;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
br.close();
}
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// For java 1.7 or above
private static void readFile3(String fin) throws IOException {
try(BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fin))) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = br.readLine();
while (line != null) {
sb.append(line);
sb.append(System.lineSeparator());
line = br.readLine();
}
String everything = sb.toString();
}
}

Read everything as a string

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FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream("foo.txt");
try {
String everything = IOUtils.toString(inputStream);
} finally {
inputStream.close();
}
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// For java 1.7 or above
try(FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream("foo.txt")) {
Session IOUtils;
String everything = IOUtils.toString(inputStream);
}

Read a file as a byte array

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// For java 1.7 or above
Path path = Paths.get("path/to/file");
byte[] data = Files.readAllBytes(path);