package edu.jhu.nlp.util;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
/**
*
* A miscellaneous collection of file utilities
* @author Delip Rao
*
*/
public class FileUtil {
/**
* Read contents of a file into a string.
* @param file
* @return file contents.
*/
public static String readFile(String fileName) {
try {
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
String line = null;
while((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
sb.append('\n');
}
br.close();
return sb.toString();
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
}