reading input from text and convert it to character array?

[dojob]

Assume that there is a file named abc which contains of characters a b c d e ... inside

I need to read from the file and convert it to character array. How to do it?
I have tried several ways but it failed to do it

 Scanner input = new Scanner("abc.txt");
       while(input.hasNext()){
           char s = input.next().charAt(0);
       }

[JosAH]

The String class has a toCharArray() method (read its API documentation) ...

kind regards,

Jos

[dojob]

Do you mean to do it in this way?

 while(input.hasNext()){
           String str = input.nextLine();
           char[] chars = str.toCharArray();
       }

But how to call back the character array outside of the while loop?