java - FileReader is not reading 1stCharacter -

hello friends, making program in txt file being read , shown output. using filereader , editor of eclipse juno this. while doing this, able read full txt file not first character. example, have txt file in which: "freedom of spartacus" written, compiler should have show in result whole string. instead of this, showing "reedom of spartacus" not showing first character. here code:

package file;  import java.io.file; import java.io.filereader; import java.io.ioexception;  public class o  {     public static void main(string[] args) throws ioexception      {         file f1=new file ("tj.txt");         filereader f2=new filereader(f1);         f2.read();         system.out.println("starting read");         long size=f1.length();         char[] x=new char[(int)size];         f2.read(x);         f2.close();         string s1=new string(x);         system.out.println(s1);     } } 

what wrong code , can 1 me this?

you reading first character , ignoring here

f2.read(); 

remove line , work want.

the length length in bytes, not characters. may same in case, should read byte[] , use build string.

instead suggest

fileinputstream fis = new fileinputstream("tj.txt"); byte[] bytes = new bytes[(int) fis.getchannel().size()]; fis.read(bytes); fis.close(); string s = new string(bytes, "utf-8"); // or preferred encoding.