Reading one line from a text

[preethi Ayyappan]

Hi
I am having ten lines in my text file.I want to read first and third line.please help me with a sample code.

Thanks

[Ulf Dittmer]

I'd suggest to read the first 3 lines, and simply to ignore the second line. Here's some example code that reads from a file line by line.

[preethi Ayyappan]

I am already having a code which reads line by line.but i need to read only the first 3 lines out of 10 lines.

Code:

import java.io.*;
class FileRead1
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
try{

FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("myfile.txt");
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
String strLine;
while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {

System.out.println (strLine);
}

in.close();
}catch (Exception e){//Catch exception if any
System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
}
}
}

[Joanne Neal]

Instead of having a loop, just read the first line and do what you need to do with it, read the second line and ignore it, read the third line and do what you need to do with it and then close the input stream.

[preethi Ayyappan]

Thanks for your reply.if you show me in codes ,that will do better.

[Jesper de Jong]

Preethi, it is very simple. Throw away your while-loop. Just call br.readLine() three times.

[preethi Ayyappan]

Thank you for your help.Now it works fine.