Read Text File in Java using Scanner Class

 Previously I have posted about reading text file using FileInputStream and BufferedReader. This post shows how to read text files in java using the Scanner class.

This is a sample text file

and this is the java code to read text files using the Scanner class

1. package client;
3. import java.io.File;
4. import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
6. import java.util.Scanner;
8. public class ReadFileScn {
9. public ReadFileScn() {
10. super();
11. }
13. public static void main(String[] args) {
14. // Absolute path of file that you want to read
15. File f = new File("D:/sampleFile.txt");
16. Scanner s = null;
17. try {
18. s = new Scanner(f);
19. } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
20. }
22. //Iterate over file content
23. while (s.hasNextLine())
24. System.out.println(s.nextLine());
25. }
27. }

Execute this java code

Output is

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