How to read a file from jar in Java?

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If you want to read that file from inside your application use:

InputStream input = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/classpath/to/my/file");

The path starts with “https://stackoverflow.com/”, but that is not the path in your file-system, but in your classpath. So if your file is at the classpath “org.xml” and is called myxml.xml your path looks like “/org/xml/myxml.xml”.

The InputStream reads the content of your file. You can wrap it into an Reader, if you want.

I hope that helps.

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