Shortest way to open encoded file and readLine () in Java?

Question

What is the shortest way to open a file for reading using the readLine () method and setting its encoding?

Is the next line correct and shortest?

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( new FileInputStream(myPath), myEncoding)); 

Answer 1

With Scanner, you can do: Scanner scan = new Scanner(new File(myPath), myEncoding) , and then scan.nextLine() , which returns a String .