How to read a String from a simple text file.

Question

I have a set up popup reminders, the content of which I have entered into a text file. I read the text and display it in a specially formatted JFrame/JPanel.
My question is, since readLine() has been deprecated, how do you read a simple line of text data from a file created by, say, notepad? I guess I could just use readLine() anyway, but I want to learn the language, and "playing by the rules" seems to be the way I should go.

Answer 1

I''m guessing your referring to the readLine method of DataInputStream. Use another class, like BufferedReader, which also happens to have a method named readLine:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
try {
    String line;
    while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
        //process line
} finally {
    in.close();
}