BufferedReader: read multiple lines into a single string

Question

I\'m reading numbers from a txt file using BufferedReader for analysis. The way I\'m going about this now is- reading a line using .readline, splitting this string into an a

Answer 1

If you just want to read the entirety of a file into a string, I suggest you use Guava's Files class:

String text = Files.toString("filename.txt", Charsets.UTF_8);

Of course, that's assuming you want to maintain the linebreaks. If you want to remove the linebreaks, you could either load it that way and then use String.replace, or you could use Guava again:

List lines = Files.readLines(new File("filename.txt"), Charsets.UTF_8);
String joined = Joiner.on("").join(lines);