Java: How to read a text file

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You can use Files#readAllLines() to get all lines of a text file into a List<String>.

for (String line : Files.readAllLines(Paths.get("/path/to/file.txt"))) {
    // ...
}

Tutorial: Basic I/O > File I/O > Reading, Writing and Creating text files

You can use String#split() to split a String in parts based on a regular expression.

for (String part : line.split("\\s+")) {
    // ...
}

Tutorial: Numbers and Strings > Strings > Manipulating Characters in a String

You can use Integer#valueOf() to convert a String into an Integer.

Integer i = Integer.valueOf(part);

Tutorial: Numbers and Strings > Strings > Converting between Numbers and Strings

You can use List#add() to add an element to a List.

numbers.add(i);

Tutorial: Interfaces > The List Interface

So, in a nutshell (assuming that the file doesn’t have empty lines nor trailing/leading whitespace).

List<Integer> numbers = new ArrayList<>();
for (String line : Files.readAllLines(Paths.get("/path/to/file.txt"))) {
    for (String part : line.split("\\s+")) {
        Integer i = Integer.valueOf(part);
        numbers.add(i);
    }
}

If you happen to be at Java 8 already, then you can even use Stream API for this, starting with Files#lines().

List<Integer> numbers = Files.lines(Paths.get("/path/to/test.txt"))
    .map(line -> line.split("\\s+")).flatMap(Arrays::stream)
    .map(Integer::valueOf)
    .collect(Collectors.toList());

Tutorial: Processing data with Java 8 streams

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