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

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.readLines() API. It gets the contents of entire file as a string arrry.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/jodd/io/ReadFileAsLinesTest.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 ReadFileAsLinesTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   */

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



    String [] lines = FileUtil.readLines("C:/abcd.txt");

    for (String line : lines) {

      System.out.println("->" + line);

    }

    

    System.out.println();

    

    lines = FileUtil.readLines(new File("C:/abcd.txt"), "UTF-8");

    for (String line : lines) {

      System.out.println("->" + line);

    }

  }



}