IO Operations - Reading a File

package com.test.corejava;

/**
*
* @author seetharam
*/
import java.io.*;

public class IOReading {

/**
* Fetch the entire contents of a text file, and return it in a String.
* This style of implementation does not throw Exceptions to the caller.
*
* @param aFile is a file which already exists and can be read.
*/
public static String getContents(File aFile) {
//...checks on aFile are elided
StringBuilder contents = new StringBuilder();

try {
//use buffering, reading one line at a time
//FileReader always assumes default encoding is OK!
BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(aFile));
try {
String strLine = null; //not declared within while loop
/*
* readLine is a bit quirky :
* it returns the content of a line MINUS the newline.
* it returns null only for the END of the stream.
* it returns an empty String if two newlines appear in a row.
*/
while (( strLine = input.readLine()) != null){
contents.append(strLine);
contents.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
}
}
finally {
input.close();
}
}
catch (IOException ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}

return contents.toString();
}
public static void main(String a[]){

File f= new File("c:/myfile.txt");
String str =getContents(f);
System.out.println(str);
}
}