Java reading a file into an ArrayList?

Question

How do you read the contents of a file into an ArrayList in Java?

Here are the file contents:

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Answer 1

List words = new ArrayList();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("words.txt"));
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
    words.add(line);
}
reader.close();