Question

Hey I’m trying to open a file and read just from an offset for a certain length!
I read this topic:
How to read a specific line using the specific line number from a file in Java?
in there it said that it’s not to possible read a certain line without reading the lines before, but I’m wondering about bytes!

FileReader location = new FileReader(file);
BufferedReader inputFile = new BufferedReader(location);
// Read from bytes 1000 to 2000
// Something like this
inputFile.read(1000,2000);

Is it possible to read certain bytes from a known offset?

Answer 1

RandomAccessFile exposes a function:

seek(long pos) 
          Sets the file-pointer offset, measured from the beginning of this file, at which the next read or write occurs.