java: how to read a txt file to an Array of strings [duplicate]

Question

Hi i want to read a txt file with N lines and the result put it in an Array of strings.

Answer 1

Use a java.util.Scanner and java.util.List.

Scanner sc = new Scanner(new File(filename));
List<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>();
while (sc.hasNextLine()) {
  lines.add(sc.nextLine());
}

String[] arr = lines.toArray(new String[0]);

Answer 2

FileUtils.readLines(new File("/path/filename"));

From apache commons-io

This will get you a List of String. You can use List.toArray() to convert, but I'd suggest staying with List.