Java reading a file into an ArrayList?

Asked 2011-03-17T18:42:23.380

How do you read the contents of a file into an ArrayList<String> in Java?

Here are the file contents:

cat
house
dog
.
.
.

java java-5

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List<String> words = new ArrayList<String>();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("words.txt"));
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
    words.add(line);
}
reader.close();

answered 2011-03-17T18:45:14.530

Java reading a file into an ArrayList?

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