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

//CS124 HW6 Wikipedia Relation Extraction
//Alan Joyce (ajoyce)
public List addWives(String fileName) {
    List wives = new ArrayList();
    try {
        BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
        // for each line
        for(String line = input.readLine(); line != null; line = input.readLine()) {
            wives.add(line);
        }
        input.close();
    } catch(IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        System.exit(1);
        return null;
    }
    return wives;
}