Read text file in Java using FileInputStream

Recently I have seen some questions about reading text file content on the OTN forum, though it is a very simple task still some find it confusing. That’s why here I am showing how to read text files in java using FileInputStream

This is a sample text file

and here goes the java code to read text file using FileInputStream

1. package client;
3. import java.io.File;
4. import java.io.FileInputStream;
5. import java.io.IOException;
7. public class ReadFileJava {
8. public ReadFileJava() {
9. super();
10. }
12. public static void main(String[] args) {
13. // Absolute path of file that you want to read
14. File f = new File("D:/sampleFile.txt");
15. FileInputStream fis = null;
17. try {
18. fis = new FileInputStream(f);
20. int data;
21. //Iterate over file content
22. while ((data = fis.read()) != -1) {
23. System.out.print((char) data);
24. }
26. } catch (IOException ioe) {
27. ioe.printStackTrace();
28. } finally {
29. try {
30. if (fis != null)
31. fis.close();
32. } catch (IOException ioe) {
33. ioe.printStackTrace();
34. }
35. }
36. }
37. }

Run this code

And output is

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