Reading textfiles

// with these imports
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
// using this array to hold the text from the file
private ArrayList<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>();
// BufferedReader br = null;
try
{
    URL path = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("filename.txt");
    InputStream input = path.openStream();
    br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input));
}
catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("Scenario file missing"); return; }
try
{
    String line = null;
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null)  lines.add(line);
    br.close();
}
catch (Exception e) { try { br.close(); } catch (Exception f) {} }