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How to create a Java String from the contents of a file

I have a html file which I want to use to extract information. For that I am using Jsoup.
Now for using Jsoup, I need to convert the html file into a string. How can I do that?

File myhtml = new File("D:\\path\\report.html")';

Now, I want a String object that contains the content inside the html file.

Answer 1

I use apache common IO to read a text file into a single string

String str = FileUtils.readFileToString(file);

simple and “clean”. you can even set encoding of the text file with no hassle.

String str = FileUtils.readFileToString(file, "UTF-8");