Reading a text file from a jar

Question

I\'m having trouble reading a text file from inside a jar. I managed it while it was unzipped but now that I\'ve archived it it won\'t work. The jar has:

• BTA.j

Answer 1

Assuming you're executing the BTA.jar, you can use

InputStream in = YourClass.class.getResourceAsStream("/Splash.txt");

to retrieve an InputStream and pass it to the BufferedReader through an InputStreamReader.

The rules for the format of the path to pass to the method are defined here, in the javadoc for the Class class.