how to read a file in a string

[muhammad sami]

i am trying to read a file in a string so that i can serach for particuler words but the problem is that the file can contain special characters like " (double quotes ) and single quotes so the program would give errors is there any way around ,can any one help in this regards,or send me a sample code

[William Brogden]

The simplest thing would be to create a BufferedReader and read the file line by line, or character by character, aggregating to a StringBuffer that you can then turn into a String.
Why are you expecting quotes to cause a problem?
Bill

[Md Fizal]

Originally posted by muhammad sami:
i am trying to read a file in a string so that i can serach for particuler words but the problem is that the file can contain special characters like " (double quotes ) and single quotes so the program would give errors is there any way around ,can any one help in this regards,or send me a sample code

[Md Fizal]

Originally posted by muhammad sami:
i am trying to read a file in a string so that i can serach for particuler words but the problem is that the file can contain special characters like " (double quotes ) and single quotes so the program would give errors is there any way around ,can any one help in this regards,or send me a sample code

Try this
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("a.txt");
String str="";
int i;
while(i=fis.read()!=-1)
str+= String.valueOf((char)i);

[William Brogden]

Ewwwww! thats really inefficient.

String str="";
int i;
while(i=fis.read()!=-1)
str+= String.valueOf((char)i); 
  

It creates and discards String objects at the rate of one per character. This is what StringBuffer was made for.

 
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
int ch ;
while( ch = fis.read() != -1 ){
  sb.append((char)ch );
}
// finally
String str = sb.toString();
 

Bill

[Dana Hanna]

Even that duplicates effort - just use the BufferedReader created from a FileReader!!!