package diffutils.examples;

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.LinkedList;

import java.util.List;

public abstract class Example {

/** File separator. */

protected static final String FS = File.separator;

/** The base resource path. */

protected static String BASE_PATH = "src" + FS + "test" + FS + "resources";

/**

* Tries to read the file and split it into a list of lines.

*

* @param filename

* The filename as path.

* @return A list of lines.

*/

public static List<String> fileToLines(String filename) {

List<String> lines = new LinkedList<String>();

String line = "";

BufferedReader in = null;

try {

in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));

while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {

lines.add(line);

}

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

} finally {

if (in != null) {

try {

in.close();

} catch (IOException e) {

// ignore ... any errors should already have been

// reported via an IOException from the final flush.

}

}

}

return lines;

}

}