Reading from a file (Legacy Java Answers Forum)

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January 2002

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Reading from a file

Posted by Hiran on January 16, 2002 at 11:02 PM

I was wondering what method I can use to read a message from a text file, and preserve the text? For example, if the contents I'm reading is:


John,
      How's it going?
                      From Dave

I want the read the contents exactly like that and store it in a string (preferrably), or a character array. I normally use BufferedReader's readLine method to read from text files, but that method skips newline and carriage return characters (which, as you can see, I want to keep in this case). Thanks in advance for the help.
Hiran

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