Why is my BufferedReader reading text that dosn't exit in the given file?

Question

I am using a BufferedReader to read details from a file which are stored as bytes, I am then converting the bytes into text and splitting it into an

Answer 1

What you see is the UTF-8 BOM

Convert your input file to be without BOM.

Answer 2

white spaces may cos this error. try to trim() the input line while reading line,

like,

line = bufferedReader.readLine().trim();

Answer 3

Follow this code:

        String lineFromFile = bufferedReader.readLine();
        // strip out the `[` and `]`
        lineFromFile = lineFromFile.substring(1, lineFromFile.length()-1);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for(String s: lineFromFile.split(", "))
            sb.append((char) Integer.parseInt(s));
        String text = sb.toString();