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readLines

JVM
1.0
fun File . readLines (
charset : Charset = Charsets.UTF_8
) : List < String >

(source)

Reads the file content as a list of lines.

Do not use this function for huge files.

Parameters

charset - character set to use. By default uses UTF-8 charset.

Return list of file lines.

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