Is there any Util method to get the line contents by Line# from given file?
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The simplest approach is to read all the lines into a list and look up the line by number in this list. You can use
I would make sure you have plenty of memory. You can buy 32 GB for less than $200.
However, assuming this is not an option you can index the file by reading it once storing the offset of each line in another file. It could be a 32-bit offset, but it would simpler/more scalable if you used a 64-bit offset.
You can then lookup the offset of each line and the next one to determine where to read each line. I would expect this to take about 10 micro-seconds if implemented efficiently.
BTW: If you had it loaded in Java memory it would be about 100x faster.