Java program to read last line of a file

**JavaPF** · May 19th, 2008, 07:44 AM

This program will output the last line of the file 'file.txt'

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 
public class ReadLastLine{
 
 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 
  FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("file.txt");
  BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
 
  String strLine = null, tmp;
 
  while ((tmp = br.readLine()) != null)
  {
     strLine = tmp;
  }
 
  String lastLine = strLine;
 
  System.out.println(lastLine);
 
  in.close();
 }
}

**JavaGuru** · September 9th, 2009, 01:43 PM

Hi,
I found there is another way of doing this.

RandomAccessFile rfile = new RandomAccessFile(file,"r"); 
 
rfile.seek(file.length()); 
Third One -
FileInputStream fis=new FileInputStream("D:\\ test\\sample.txt");
 
String fileContent = new Scanner(fis).useDelimiter("\\Z").next()

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**Json** · September 10th, 2009, 02:26 AM

Yeah if you use the BufferedReader and you have a file which might be a couple of gigabyte in size, first of all your JVM will need a lot of memory and it will take you a while to do.

RandomAccess might be the better way to go.

// Json

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