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

No external libraries needed. The content of the file will be buffered before converting to string.

Path path = FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(directory, filename);
String fileContent = new String(Files.readAllBytes(path), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);