Read data from a text file using Java

Question

I need to read a text file line by line using Java. I use available() method of FileInputStream to check and loop over the file. But while reading, the loop terminates after the line before the last one. i.e., if the file has 10 lines, the loop reads only the first 9 lines. Snippet used :

while(fis.available() > 0)
{
    char c = (char)fis.read();
    .....
    .....
}

Answer 1

If you want to read line-by-line, use a BufferedReader. It has a readLine() method which returns the line as a String, or null if the end of the file has been reached. So you can do something like:

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fis));
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
 // Do something with line
}

(Note that this code doesn't handle exceptions or close the stream, etc)

Answer 2

You can try FileUtils from org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils, try downloading jar from here

and you can use the following method: FileUtils.readFileToString("yourFileName");

Hope it helps you..

Answer 3

user scanner it should work

         Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);
         while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
           System.out.println(scanner.nextLine());
         }
         scanner.close(); 

Answer 4

String file = "/path/to/your/file.txt";

try {

    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file)));
    String line;
    // Uncomment the line below if you want to skip the fist line (e.g if headers)
    // line = br.readLine();

    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {

        // do something with line

    }
    br.close();

} catch (IOException e) {
    System.out.println("ERROR: unable to read file " + file);
    e.printStackTrace();   
}

Answer 5

You should not use available(). It gives no guarantees what so ever. From the API docs of available():

Returns an estimate of the number of bytes that can be read (or skipped over) from this input stream without blocking by the next invocation of a method for this input stream.

You would probably want to use something like

try {
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("infilename"));
    String str;
    while ((str = in.readLine()) != null)
        process(str);
    in.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}

(taken from http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.io/ReadLinesFromFile.html)

Answer 6

//The way that I read integer numbers from a file is...

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class Practice
{
    public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException
    {
        Scanner input = new Scanner(new File("cards.txt"));

        int times = input.nextInt();

        for(int i = 0; i < times; i++)
        {
            int numbersFromFile = input.nextInt();
            System.out.println(numbersFromFile);
        }




    }
}