How can we read data from a text file and store in a String variable?
is it possible to pass the filename in a method and it would return the String which is the text from the file.
What kind of utilities do I have to import? A list of statements will be great.
These are the necersary imports:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
And this is a method that will allow you to read from a File by passing it the filename as a parameter like this: readFile("yourFile.txt");
String readFile(String fileName) throws IOException {
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
try {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = br.readLine();
while (line != null) {
sb.append(line);
sb.append("\n");
line = br.readLine();
}
return sb.toString();
} finally {
br.close();
}
}
int? How do you know the file fits into memory? And finally, and the biggest issue of all, how do you know that reader.read(chars) filled the buffer?
How can we read data from a text file and store in a String Variable?
Err, read data from the file and store it in a String variable. It's just code. Not a real question so far.
Is it possible to pass the filename in a method and it would return the String which is the text from the file.
Yes it's possible. It's also a very bad idea. You should deal with the file a part at a time, for example a line at a time. Reading the entire file into memory before you process any of it adds latency; wastes memory; and assumes that the entire file will fit into memory. One day it won't. You don't want to do it this way.
java.io.*