Answer Description: import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.Properties;
public class StreamToString {
public static void main(String[] args) {
StreamToString sts = new StreamToString();
/*
* Get input stream of the data file. This file can be in the root of
* your application folder or inside a jar file (incase the program is packed
* as a jar.)
*/
InputStream is = sts.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/data.txt");
/*
* Call the method to convert the stream to string
*/
System.out.println(sts.convertStreamToString(is));
}
public String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {
/*
* To conver the InputStream to String use the BufferedReader.readLine()
* method. Iterate until the BufferedReader returns NULL. Each line will *appended to a StringBuilder and returned as String.
*/
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
try {
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return sb.toString();
}
}