Java newbie & text files

Question

I want to create a simple program that will read a text file and put it in a variable to use later in the program. I can't figure out how to assign characters from the text file to a variable. Please bear with me, this is my latest attempt:
import java.io.*;
public class FileReader1 {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
     File inputFile = new File("nfo.txt");
FileReader in = new FileReader(inputFile);
String intext;
int c;
while ((c = in.read()) != -1)
intext = (String)in;
in.close();
System.out.println(intext);
}

Answer 1

I used the BufferedReader method on the FileReader method to get a string instead of characters, thus I could easily assign the value to a string variable. Below is my solution:
import java.io.*;
public class FileReader1 {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
     File inputFile = new File("nfo.txt");
FileReader in = new FileReader(inputFile);
          BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(in);
          String s;
          String intext="";
while ((s = br.readLine()) != null)
          intext = s;
System.out.println(intext);
in.close();
}