Java: reading strings from a random access file with buffered input

Question

I\'ve never had close experiences with Java IO API before and I\'m really frustrated now. I find it hard to believe how strange and complex it is and how hard it could be to

Answer 1

Start with a RandomAccessFile and use read or readFully to get a byte array between pos1 and pos2. Let's say that we've stored the data read in a variable named rawBytes.

Then create your BufferedReader using

new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(rawBytes)))

Then you can call readLine on the BufferedReader.

Caveat: this probably uses more memory than if you could make the BufferedReader seek to the right location itself, because it preloads everything into memory.