Java read properties file

In this section, you will learn how to read properties file.

Description of code:

There are different tools to access different files. Now to load the data from the properties file, we have used Properties class. This class allowed us to save data to a stream or loaded from a stream using the properties file. In the properties file, data has been stored as a key value pair in the form of string.

load()- This method reads a property list (key and element pairs) from the input stream.

getProperty() - This method searches for the property with the specified key in the properties file.

Here is the data.properties:

Here is the code:

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class ReadPropertiesFile {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Properties prop = new Properties();
		try {
			prop.load(new FileInputStream("C:/data.properties"));
			String name = prop.getProperty("name");
			String address = prop.getProperty("address");
			System.out.println("Name: " + name);
			System.out.println("Address: " + address);
		} catch (Exception e) {
		}
	}
}

Through the above code, you can read any properties file.

Output:

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