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Read the contents of a file and place them in a string object
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
/**
*
* @author <a href="mailto:jvanzyl@apache.org">Jason van Zyl</a>
* @author <a href="mailto:dlr@finemaltcoding.com">Daniel Rall</a>
* @version $Id: StringUtils.java 685685 2008-08-13 21:43:27Z nbubna $
*/
public class Main {
/**
* Read the contents of a file and place them in
* a string object.
*
* @param file path to file.
* @return String contents of the file.
*/
public static String fileContentsToString(String file)
{
String contents = "";
File f = null;
try
{
f = new File(file);
if (f.exists())
{
FileReader fr = null;
try
{
fr = new FileReader(f);
char[] template = new char[(int) f.length()];
fr.read(template);
contents = new String(template);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
finally
{
if (fr != null)
{
fr.close();
}
}
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
return contents;
}
}
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