Skip n bytes while reading the file using FileInputStream

  1. /*
  2.   Skip n bytes while reading the file using FileInputStream
  3.   This example shows how to skip n bytes while reading the file using skip method of
  4.   Java FileInputStream class.
  5. */
  6.  
  7. import java.io.*;
  8.  
  9. public class SkipBytesReadFile {
  10.  
  11. public static void main(String[] args) {
  12.  
  13. //create file object
  14. File file = new File("C://FileIO//ReadString.txt");
  15.  
  16. try
  17. {
  18. //create FileInputStream object
  19. FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(file);
  20. int ch;
  21. /*
  22.   * To skip n bytes while reading the file, use
  23.   * int skip(int nBytes) method of Java FileInputStream class.
  24.   *
  25.   * This method skip over n bytes of data from stream. This method returns
  26.   * actual number of bytes that have been skipped.
  27.   */
  28.  
  29. //skip first 10 bytes
  30. fin.skip(10);
  31.  
  32. while( (ch = fin.read()) != -1 )
  33. System.out.print((char) ch);
  34. }
  35. catch(FileNotFoundException e)
  36. {
  37. System.out.println("File not found" + e);
  38. }
  39. catch(IOException ioe)
  40. {
  41. System.out.println("Exception while reading the file " + ioe);
  42. }
  43. }
  44. }

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