Java program codes: Java Read File Line by Line - Java Tutorial

In the section of Java Tutorial you will learn how to write java program to read file line by line. We will use the DataInputStream class to Read text File Line by Line.
Class DataInputStream
A data input stream is use to read primitive Java data types from an underlying input stream in a machine-independent way. An application uses a data output stream to write data that can later be read by a data input stream.
Data input streams and data output streams represent Unicode strings in a format that is a slight modification of UTF-8. (For more information, see X/Open Company Ltd., "File System Safe UCS Transformation Format (FSS_UTF)", X/Open Preliminary Specification, Document Number: P316. This information also appears in ISO/IEC 10646, Annex P.) Note that in the following tables, the most significant bit appears in the far left-hand column.
BufferedReader
Read text from a character-input stream, buffering characters so as to provide for the efficient reading of characters, arrays, and lines.
The buffer size may be specified, or the default size may be used. The default is large enough for most purposes.
In general, each read request made of a Reader causes a corresponding read request to be made of the underlying character or byte stream. It is therefore advisable to wrap a BufferedReader around any Reader whose read() operations may be costly, such as FileReaders and InputStreamReaders. For example,

BufferedReader in
   = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("foo.in"));
 

will buffer the input from the specified file. Without buffering, each invocation of read() or readLine() could cause bytes to be read from the file, converted into characters, and then returned, which can be very inefficient. Programs that use DataInputStreams for textual input can be localized by replacing each DataInputStream with an appropriate BufferedReader.
Here is the code of java program to Read text File Line by Line:

import java.io.*; class FileRead {  public static void main(String args[])   {   try{   // Open the file that is the first    // command line parameter   FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("textfile.txt");   // Get the object of DataInputStream   DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);   BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));   String strLine;   //Read File Line By Line   while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null)   {   // Print the content on the console   System.out.println (strLine);   }   //Close the input stream   in.close();     }catch (Exception e){//Catch exception if any   System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());   }   } }

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