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 create a StringBuilder, then you can append every line to it, and return the String using toString() at the end.

You can replace your ReadBigStringIn() with

public String ReadBigStringIn() {
        StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();

        try {
            String line = buffIn.readLine();
            while (line != null) {
                b.append(line);
                line = buffIn.readLine();
            }
        }
        catch(IOException e){};

        return b.toString();
}