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.

  String fileContent="";
  try {
          File f = new File("path2file");
          byte[] bf = new byte[(int)f.length()];
          new FileInputStream(f).read(bf);
          fileContent = new String(bf, "UTF-8");
      } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
          // handle file not found exception
      } catch (IOException e) {
          // handle IO-exception
      }