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Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By : Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria
Book Image

Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By: Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria

Overview of this book

The Android team has announced first-class support for Kotlin 1.1. This acts as an added boost to the language and more and more developers are now looking at Kotlin for their application development. This recipe-based book will be your guide to learning the Kotlin programming language. The recipes in this book build from simple language concepts to more complex applications of the language. After the fundamentals of the language, you will learn how to apply the object-oriented programming features of Kotlin 1.1. Programming with Lambdas will show you how to use the functional power of Kotlin. This book has recipes that will get you started with Android programming with Kotlin 1.1, providing quick solutions to common problems encountered during Android app development. You will also be taken through recipes that will teach you microservice and concurrent programming with Kotlin. Going forward, you will learn to test and secure your applications with Kotlin. Finally, this book supplies recipes that will help you migrate your Java code to Kotlin and will help ensure that it's interoperable with Java.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Reading all lines in a file using InputReader


We can use InputReader to read all the lines in a file in one go. In this recipe, we will learn how to do that.

Getting ready

You need to install a preferred development environment that compiles and runs Kotlin. You can also use the command line for this purpose, for which you need the Kotlin compiler installed along with JDK. You can also use IntelliJ IDEA for the development environment.

How to do it…

Let's follow these steps to understand how to read a file using the InputReader class:

  1. There are two ways to read a file, one of which is to attach an input stream to the file. Let's see how we can do that and use InputReader to read its contents:
import java.io.File
import java.io.InputStream

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    val inputStream: InputStream = File("example2.txt").inputStream()
    val inputString = inputStream.reader().use { it.readText() }
    println(inputString)
}
  1. The other way is without getting a stream and directly reading...