Read File As List of Strings 

Apache Commons IO is a java library with simple IO utilities and filters. This requires the library commons-io-2.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using FileUtils.readLines() API. It returns the file content as list of strings by reading the file line by line.

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_io/tests/ReadFileAsStringList.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_io.tests; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils; public class ReadFileAsStringList {   /**    * @param args    * @throws IOException     */   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {     File file = new File("C:/Test/rule_engine_names.txt");          for (String line : FileUtils.readLines(file, "UTF-8")) {       System.out.println(line);     }   } }

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