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From: Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com>
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Subject: Re: Reading a File
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:33:16 -0800
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On 1/25/2013 8:58 PM, Subhabrata wrote:
> Dear Group,
>
> I am a new learner in Java. And I wanted to open a file and read its
> content.
> The standard tutorials give long code. They use try,catch etc. I
> wanted something simple and started to experiment something as
> follows. But it was giving some error.
>
> import java.io.*;
> public class FileOutput  {
>
> 	/**
> 	 * @param args
> 	 */
> 	public static void main(String[] args)  {
> 		FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("C:\\FileIO\
> \javadict.txt");
> 		DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
> 		BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
> 		String strLine;
> 		System.out.println(br.strLine);
> 	  }
>
> 		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
>
> 	}
>
> If any one in the room can kindly suggest.
>
> Regards,
> Subhabrata.
> NB: Thank you all for your earlier solution though I worked my own
> with .equals only.
>

import java.io.*;

public class ReadIt {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
         FileReader fr = new FileReader("ReadIt.java");
         BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);

         String str;
         while ((str = br.readLine()) != null)
             System.out.println(str);

         br.close();
     }
}

You will need to catch exceptions in real code but this will work unless 
an exception is thrown.

-- 

Knute Johnson