Example FileRead in java

FileRead.java

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class FileRead {

  public String[] readLines(String filename) throws IOException {
		FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(filename);
		BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
		List<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>();
		String line = null;
		while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
			lines.add(line);
		}
		bufferedReader.close();
		return lines.toArray(new String[lines.size()]);
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		FileRead fap = new FileRead();
		try {
			String[] lines = fap.readLines("/Users/mchirico/testData/data");
			for (String line : lines) {
				System.out.println(line);
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {

		}

	}

}