Reading and displaying data from a .txt file

Question

How do you read and display data from .txt files?

Answer 1

If your file is strictly text, I prefer to use the java.util.Scanner class.

You can create a Scanner out of a file by:

Scanner fileIn = new Scanner(new File(thePathToYourFile));

Then, you can read text from the file using the methods:

fileIn.nextLine(); // Reads one line from the file
fileIn.next(); // Reads one word from the file

And, you can check if there is any more text left with:

fileIn.hasNext(); // Returns true if there is another word in the file
fileIn.hasNextLine(); // Returns true if there is another line to read from the file

Once you have read the text, and saved it into a String, you can print the string to the command line with:

System.out.print(aString);
System.out.println(aString);

The posted link contains the full specification for the Scanner class. It will be helpful to assist you with what ever else you may want to do.