How to read in a file as one whole String

Question

Hi..im trying to read in a file, that has white spaces, indenting and all..an i wana read in all that as one string. i cant use realine has it reads in line by line...someone told me i should use fileinputstream but i dont knw how that's done. thanks

Answer 1

yea but i dont want to do that coz i have the reading in file in my main class. and a separte function that looks for two specific words in that whole string and spits out the content between them. with readline its only line by line.. my main looks like this:
public static void main(String args[])
try
FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("c:/Program Files/searchResult.xml");
String line;
line = fstream.toString();
     System.out.println (line);
                    fstream.close();
catch (Exception e)
                    System.err.println("error");
So right now all this does is reads in the file..but the output it gives me is :
java.io.FileInputStream@108786b
any ideas??