package util;

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

/**

 * Utility class to read a txt file into a List

 * @author zhengc

 *

 */

public class FileToList {

    /**

     * Creates a List from a txt file

     * @param filename file that contains items

     * @return a List

     * @throws IOException

     */

    public static List<String> createListFromfile(String filename) throws IOException {

        List<String> genelist = new ArrayList<>();

        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(filename)));

        String gene = null;

        while ((gene = br.readLine()) != null) {

            genelist.add(gene);

        }

        br.close();

        return genelist;

    }

}