Re: How to convert one text file into one large String?

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:31:24 +0000
Message-ID:
<alpine.DEB.1.10.1003051828360.11486@urchin.earth.li>
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 04-03-2010 21:03, Roedy Green wrote:

On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:54:59 -0500, www<www@nospam.com> wrote, quoted
or indirectly quoted someone who said :

I searched all the methods in File.java(from Sun) and
FileUtils.java(from Apache) and could not find it.


see http://mindprod.com/products1.html#HUNKIO
for the source code


Given that a one liner using only standard Java API has been posted, then
there are no need.


Just for fun, here's a two-liner, where f is a File:

byte[] buf = new byte[(int)f.length()];
new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(f)).readFully(buf);


Although of course that gets you a byte array, not a String. My bad. The
full answer is a three-liner:

String s = new String(buf, "UTF-8"); // or whatever charset you like

Although this involves using N bytes of memory for the buffer and up to 2N
bytes for the string at the same time, if only briefly. There should be a
way to do it that just involves storing 2N bytes, and perhaps Scanner does
this.

tom

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