Question

I’m loading an XML file with this method:

public static String readTextFile(String fullPathFilename) throws IOException {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(1024);
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fullPathFilename));

        char[] chars = new char[1024];
        while(reader.read(chars) > -1){
            sb.append(String.valueOf(chars));   
        }

        reader.close();

        return sb.toString();
    }

But it doesn’t load the whole data. Instead of 25634 characters, it loads 10 less (25624). Why is that?

Thanks,

Ivan

Answer 1

With BufferedReader you get the readLine()-Method, which works well for me.

        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer( 1024 );
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader( new FileReader( fullPathFilename ) );

        while( true ) {
            String line = reader.readLine();
            if(line == null) {
                break;
            }
            sb.append( line );
        }
        reader.close();