How can you get the contents of a text file while preserving whether or not it has a newline at the end of the file? Using this technique, it is impossible to tell if the file ends in a newline:
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fromFile));
StringBuilder contents = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line=reader.readLine()) != null) {
contents.append(line);
contents.append("\n");
}
Best Solution
Don't use readLine(); transfer the contents one character at a time using the read() method. If you use it on a BufferedReader, this will have the same performance, although unlike your code above it will not "normalize" Windows-style CR/LF line breaks.