To read in an entire file in Scala, you can use Java APIs, but by initializing data structures in a different way – note how the byte array is created.<\/p>\n
\ntry {\n val file = new File(\"src\/main\/scala\/Main.scala\")\n val fis = new FileInputStream(file)\n\n val data = Array.fill[Byte](file.length.toInt)(0)\n fis.read(data)\n fis.close\n\n val str = new String(data, \"UTF-8\")\n\n print(str)\n} catch {\n case e: Exception => {\n println(e)\n }\n}\n<\/pre>\nAlso of interest is the exception block – this uses pattern matching, which makes it look more like a case statement in Java.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To read in an entire file in Scala, you can use Java APIs, but by initializing data structures in a different way – note how the byte array is created. try { val file = new File(“src\/main\/scala\/Main.scala”) val fis = new FileInputStream(file) val data = Array.fill[Byte](file.length.toInt)(0) fis.read(data) fis.close val str = new String(data, “UTF-8”) print(str) … <\/p>\n