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I am creating a Java application in which I need to read the first few lines of a huge text file and do the processing.
Is it possible that instead of getting the entire file, I read the first few lines and fetch the data? And this is being done using Java API.
Yes, it can be done. When you use BufferedReader, for example, you read just (buffer_size) from the file. Then you can process it before reading the next fragment…
for example, see this tutorial