Reading entire html file to String?

Question

Are there better ways to read an entire html file to a single string variable than:

    String content = "";     try {         BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("mypage.html"));         String str;         while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {             content +=str;         }         in.close();     } catch (IOException e) {     } 

Answer 1

There's the IOUtils.toString(..) utility from Apache Commons.

If you're using Guava there's also Files.readLines(..) and Files.toString(..).

Answer 2

You should use a StringBuilder:

StringBuilder contentBuilder = new StringBuilder(); try {     BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("mypage.html"));     String str;     while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {         contentBuilder.append(str);     }     in.close(); } catch (IOException e) { } String content = contentBuilder.toString();