Read external file at Java runtime

entries.dat

ENGLISH "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
ENGLISH "yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss.SS"
ENGLISH "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a"
ENGLISH "M/d/yy H:mm"
ENGLISH "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss"

Entries.java

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Entries {

  public static void main (String[] args) {

    final String fileName = "entries.dat";

    try (BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(fileName)))) {

      System.out.println("Reading data from a file at runtime:");
      String line = null;

      while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
        System.out.println(line);


    } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
      System.err.printf("External file '%s' not found!%n", fileName);

    } catch (IOException ex) {
      System.err.println("I/O Exception!");

    }

  }

}