Additional spaces in String having read text file to String using FileInputStream
- by David
Hi,
I'm trying to read in a text file to a String variable. The text file has multiple lines.
Having printed the String to test the "read-in" code, there is an additional space between every character. As I am using the String to generate character bigrams, the spaces are making the sample text useless.
The code is
try{
FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream(textfile);
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
//Read corpus file line-by-line, concatenating each line to the String "corpus"
while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null)
{
corpus = (corpus.concat(strLine));
}
in.close(); //Close the input stream
}
catch (Exception e)
{//Catch exception if any
System.err.println("Error test check: " + e.getMessage());
}
I'd be grateful for any advice.
Thanks.
