How to write contents of a file to byte array in Java?

The FileInputStream class contains a method read(), this method accepts a byte array as a parameter and it reads the data of the file input stream to given byte array.

Example

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;

public class FileToByteArray {
   public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
      File file = new File("HelloWorld");
      FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
      byte[] bytesArray = new byte[(int)file.length()];
      fis.read(bytesArray);
      String s = new String(bytesArray);
      System.out.println(s);
   }
}

Output

//Class declaration
public class SampleProgram {
   /* This is my first java program.
      This will print 'Hello World' as the output
   */

   //Main method
   public static void main(String []args) {
      //prints Hello World
      System.out.println("Hello World");
   }
}

Sharon Christine

Updated on 19-Dec-2019 08:53:10

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