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

A jar is just a zip file and can be read like this..

ZipFile file = new ZipFile("/home/Desktop/myjar.jar");
Enumeration entries = file.entries();

while (entries.hasMoreElements()) {
    ZipEntry entry = entries.nextElement();

    if (entry.getName().startsWith("splash")) {
        try (BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(file.getInputStream(entry)))) {
            String line = null;
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                System.out.println(line);
            }
        }
    }
}