Java reading a file into an ArrayList?

Question

How do you read the contents of a file into an ArrayList in Java?

Here are the file contents:

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Answer 1

You can for example do this in this way (full code with exceptions handlig):

BufferedReader in = null;
List myList = new ArrayList();
try {   
    in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("myfile.txt"));
    String str;
    while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
        myList.add(str);
    }
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
    if (in != null) {
        in.close();
    }
}