Java Code Snippets

Question 1

/**
* Read input file and save
* Catch FileNotFoundException and
* IOException
 */
public String readFile(String filePath);

Answer 1

public String readFile(String filePath) {
	StringBuilder contenets = new StringBuilder);
	try {
		FileInputStream inStream = new FileInputStream(filePath);
		int character = inStream.read();
		while (character != -1) {
			contents.append((char) character);
			character = inStream.read();
		}
	} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
		System.out.println("The file was not found at " + filePath);
		return "";
	} catch (IOException e) {
		System.out.println("Unable to read file " + filePath);
		return "";
	}
	return contents.toString;
}