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Re: Shortest way to read all lines (one by one) from a text file?

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From	Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com>
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Subject	Re: Shortest way to read all lines (one by one) from a text file?
Date	Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:23:15 -0700
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rob@wenger.net (Robin Wenger) writes:

> Ok, I know in general a way to read text lines ony-by-one from a file into a string variable.
> But I miss somehow a short one-liner like:
>
>
> foreach(String currentline : file("D:\test\myfile.txt")) {
>    ....
>    }
>    
> Is there something like this in Java?
> What would be the shortest way otherwise?
>            

http://commons.apache.org/io/api-1.4/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.html#readLines(java.io.File)

For a more memory-efficient approach, see LineIterator in the same package.

-- 
Jim Janney

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Shortest way to read all lines (one by one) from a text file? rob@wenger.net (Robin Wenger) - 2011-02-11 08:20 +0000
  Re: Shortest way to read all lines (one by one) from a text file? Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2011-02-11 08:23 -0700
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