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Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

By : Samuel Urbanowicz
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Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

By: Samuel Urbanowicz

Overview of this book

For developers who prefer a more simplistic approach to coding, Kotlin has emerged as a valuable solution for effective software development. The Kotlin standard library provides vital tools that make day-to-day Kotlin programming easier. This library features core attributes of the language, such as algorithmic problems, design patterns, data processing, and working with files and data streams. With a recipe-based approach, this book features coding solutions that you can readily execute. Through the book, you’ll encounter a variety of interesting topics related to data processing, I/O operations, and collections transformation. You’ll get started by exploring the most effective design patterns in Kotlin and understand how coroutines add new features to JavaScript. As you progress, you'll learn how to implement clean, reusable functions and scalable interfaces containing default implementations. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll discover recipes on functional programming concepts, such as lambdas, monads, functors, and Kotlin scoping functions, which will help you tackle a range of real-life coding problems. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with the expertise you need to address a range of challenges that Kotlin developers face by implementing easy-to-follow solutions.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Reading the contents of a file

In this recipe, we are going to retrieve the contents of a file as text and print it to the console. We are going to use the standard library File.readText() extension function, returning a String representing the text content of the given File instance.

Getting ready

Make sure you have a sample non-empty file included in your project to read its contents. You can clone the sample project provided with the book's GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Kotlin-Standard-Library-Cookbook. In this recipe, we are going to use the file1.txt file located in the src/main/resources directory in the sample project.

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