How do i open a file in java?

[Goldenrtvr]

ive looked everywhere and i have no idea what to do.

 

[CodeMonkeyJ]

Assuming it's a text file, check out the BufferedReader class. Right at the top of it's API page it's got BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("foo.in"));. Then, you use read() or readLine() to start pulling text out of it. Check each function's doc on how to detect the end of the file.

 

[Goldenrtvr]

can you post the code on how to do that? btw, im using replit

 

[CodeMonkeyJ]

The common idiom you'll see is this. Note that this isn't catching exceptions that can be thrown, e.g., if the file doesn't exist or you lack permissions to read it.

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("foo.in"));.
String line;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
    System.out.println(line);
}