Getting File Content to a String

Concept :Read the file character by character and append it to a String


FileToString.java
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;

public class FileToString
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
    String fileContent=readFileAsString("c:\\store\\readme.txt");
    System.out.println(fileContent);
}

private static String readFileAsString(String filePath)throws Exception
{
    String fileData = new String();
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filePath));
    char[] buf = new char[1024];
    int numRead=0;
    while((numRead=reader.read(buf)) != -1){
        String readData = String.valueOf(buf, 0, numRead);
        fileData+=readData;
        buf = new char[1024];
    }
    reader.close();
    return fileData.toString();
}
}