How to convert String to Reader in java

I have a method which reads a file and returns a string, but I wanted to return a reader. I want to convert the string to a reader, or I want to read the file and return the reader. How can I do this?

Use java.io.StringReader: return new StringReader(string);.

Next time you need a reader, you can check the "Direct known subclasses" of the Reader class. Same goes for InputStream, etc. The place to start is the javadoc - it contains quite a lot of useful information.

But for your task at hand, you'd better follow Jon Lin' advice of simply using a FileReader. There is no need to go through String. (For that, my advice from the previous paragraph applies as well)

Or you can simply create a FileReader and return that.

You can use StringReader class from java.io package.

String stringToBeParsed = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog";
StringReader reader = new StringReader(stringToBeParsed);