Split File - Java/Linux

Question

I have a large file contains nearly 250 million characters. Now, I want to split it into parts of each contains 30 million characters ( so first 8 parts will contains 30 million

Answer 1

You can do it using BreakIterator class and its static method getCharacterInstance(). It Returns a new BreakIterator instance for character breaks for the default locale.

You can also use getWordInstance(), getLineInstance().. to break words, line...etc

eg:

BreakIterator boundary = BreakIterator.getCharacterInstance();

boundary.setText("Your_Sentence");

int start = boundary.first();

int end = boundary.next();

Iterate over it... to get the Characters....

For more detail look at this link:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/BreakIterator.html