How do I read file contents to string using commons-io?

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An example to read file contents and return the result as a string. This example using apache commons-io library version 1.3.1.

package org.kodejava.sample.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ReadFileToStringSample
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        // In this example we use FileUtils class from Apache
        // Commons IO (commons.io) to read the content of a 
        // file. FileUtils have two static methods called
        // readFileToString(File file) and readFileToString(
        // File file, String encoding) that we can user.

        // Here we create an instance of File to hold our
        // sample.txt file.
        File file = new File("sample.txt");

        try
        {
            // Read the entire contents of sample.txt
            String content = FileUtils.readFileToString(file);

            // For shake of this example we show the file content here.
            System.out.println("File content: " + content);
        } catch (IOException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}                                                                  
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