Java program to read a text file. Below java program can be used to read a text (.txt) file or any other text based file like .xml, .properties etc

ReadTextFile.java

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ReadTextFile {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

		// Prove Text File to Read
		String TextFileToRead = "c:/TextFile.txt";

		try {
			File file = new File(TextFileToRead);
			FileReader fr = new FileReader(file);
			BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);

			String iterateEachLine = "";

			while ((iterateEachLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
				System.out.println(iterateEachLine);
			}
			
			br.close();

		} catch (IOException ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}

	}

}