read textfile in java code example

Example 1: java read text file

// how to read text file line by line using FileReader class
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
public class JavaReadTextFileUsingFileReader
{
   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
   {
      FileReader fr = new FileReader("B:\demo.txt");
      int a;
      while((a = fr.read()) != -1)
      {
         System.out.print((char) a);
      }
      fr.close();
   }
}

Example 2: java read text file

// java read text file example code
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
public class JavaReadTextFileUsingBufferedReader
{
   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
   {
      File fl = new File("B:\\demo.txt");
      BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fl));
      String str;
      while((str = br.readLine()) != null)
      {
         System.out.println(str);
      }
      br.close();
   }
}