You can read a file anywhere on your computer, here is an example using Java BufferedReader
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
public class ReadFileExample1 {
private static final String FILENAME = "E:\\test\\filename.txt";
public static void main(String[] args) {
BufferedReader br = null;
FileReader fr = null;
try {
//br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(FILENAME));
fr = new FileReader(FILENAME);
br = new BufferedReader(fr);
String sCurrentLine;
while ((sCurrentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(sCurrentLine);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
if (br != null) br.close();
if (fr != null) fr.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
View tutorial useful to read from files.