I/O question

[newbee2]

I want to make a small program which reads plain text file from a disk and stores the text in StringBuffer. How do I do that?
I tryed using DataInputStream with the following:
dis.readUTF();
but it doesn't seem to work. It works only if the text file was created with the DataOutputStream and does not work with a "normal" text file...

Thanks in advance

 

[JavaDude32]

Okay, rather than use a DataInputStream, you rather want to use a BufferedReader, and it's readLine() method. DataInputStream is for reading specific data types in a file such as a written String (via the DataOutputStream), not plain text.

 

[newbee2]

Thank you - that explains it. As you can see I am still very green