Whole text file to a String in Java

Question

Does Java has a one line instruction to read to a text file, like what C# has?

I mean, is there something equivalent to this in Java?:

String data =          


        

Answer 1

In Java 8 (no external libraries) you could use streams. This code reads a file and puts all lines separated by ', ' into a String.

try (Stream lines = Files.lines(myPath)) {
    list = lines.collect(Collectors.joining(", "));
} catch (IOException e) {
    LOGGER.error("Failed to load file.", e);
}