Tag: IO

How to read a specific line from a very large file in Java

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So the other day I had to write some Java code to read specific lines of text from very large files full of ASCII text records (of a fixed length). The records in the files are generally defined by the the length of a record (no carriage returns, fixed length, i.e. each "record" is 290 … Continue reading How to read a specific line from a very large file in Java →