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

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

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



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   */

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



    String content = FileUtil.readString("C:/abcd.txt");

    System.out.println(content);

    

    System.out.println();

    

    String content2 = FileUtil.readString(new File("C:/abcd.txt"), "UTF-8");

    System.out.println(content2);

  }



}