package lab1;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.StringReader;




public class TextReader
{

   public static ArrayList readFile(String fileName) throws IOException
   {
      //set filereader variable to null.
      BufferedReader fileReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
      ArrayList<String> arr = new ArrayList<String>();
      String tempLine = fileReader.readLine();

      while(tempLine != null)
         {
            arr.add(tempLine);
            tempLine = fileReader.readLine();
         }

      return arr;

      // Read the CSV file header to skip it
   }

      }