read complete file without using loop in java

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> How to create a Java String from the contents of a file
> Whole text file to a String in Java

I am trying to read the contents of a file using FileReader . But i want to read the file without reading a line by line . Is it possible to read the whole file without loop. I am using the following code

 try
 {
     File ff=new File("abc.txt");
     FileReader fr=new FileReader(ff);

     String s;
     while(br.read()!=-1)
     {
          s=br.readLine();
     }
 }
   
 catch(Exception ex)
 {
     ex.printStackTrace();
 }

Java 7 one line solution

List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get("file"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

or

 String text = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("file")), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

If the file is small, you can read the whole data once:

File file = new File("a.txt");
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
byte[] data = new byte[(int) file.length()];
fis.read(data);
fis.close();

String str = new String(data, "UTF-8");

You can try using Scanner if you are using JDK5 or higher.

Scanner scan = new Scanner(file);  
scan.useDelimiter("\\Z");  
String content = scan.next(); 

Or you can also use Guava

String data = Files.toString(new File("path.txt"), Charsets.UTF8);

If you are using Java 5/6, you can use Apache Commons IO for read file to string. The class org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils contais several method for read files.

e.g. using the method FileUtils#readFileToString:

File file = new File("abc.txt");
String content = FileUtils.readFileToString(file);

Since Java 11 you can do it even simpler:

import java.nio.file.Files;

Files.readString(Path path);
Files.readString​(Path path, Charset cs)

Source: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/nio/file/Files.html#readString(java.nio.file.Path)