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Utilities.readURL

Reads the passed URL, and returns its contents as a string.

Syntax

public static final String 
readURL(String url)

Parameters

url

The URL to read, for example, "http://www.oracle.com/".

Description

The readURL method reads the passed URL, and returns its contents as a string. This method strips out characters returned by Character.isIdentifierIgnorable().

Returns

The contents of the URL in a string, or null.

Example

The following code writes the contents of www.oracle.com into variable strURL:

String strURL = Utilities.readURL("http://www.oracle.com/");

See Also

readByteFile

 

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