BE THE CODER > Tools and Libs > Jodd > IO Utilities > How to read file content as char array

Jodd is an open-source java library with lot of reusable components and feature rich utilities. This requires the library jodd-3.3.2.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows how to use FileUtil.readChars() API. It gets the contents of entire file as a char array.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/jodd/io/ReadCharsFromFileTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.jodd.io;



import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;



import jodd.io.FileUtil;



public class ReadCharsFromFileTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {



    char [] content = FileUtil.readChars("C:/abcd.txt");

    System.out.println(new String(content));

    

    System.out.println();

    

    char [] content2 = FileUtil.readChars(new File("C:/abcd.txt"), "UTF-8");

    System.out.println(new String(content2));

  }



}