Reading a file

[Sathya Srinivasan]

Hi,
Can someone tell me how to read a file that is packaged along with the jar file?
I read a post that files that are not packaged within the jar file cannot be read and that makes sense.
In my situation, I would like to read a bunch of strings from a file that I will supply with the jar file.
As an example, consider a quiz program for which I want to load the quiz questions and answers or a random quote generator program for which I would like to load the list of all quotes from which the program will select during load time.
Any help greatly appreciated.

[Pavlin Mihalev]

Hello,
If I'm understanding right your question, here's what your solution will look like:
InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/YOUR_FILENAME_HERE");
and then for example
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(is);
I hope this helps ;-)
Cheers,
Pavlin

[Sathya Srinivasan]

That worked perfectly fine. Thank you!