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these danged streams...

Posted by sebastian on December 10, 2001 at 12:29 PM

after several hours of trying to figure out an error i came to the conclusion that a wrapper class to an inputStream (in this case BufferedReader) buffers a chunk of data each time you call some read method that is bigger than the chunk of data that youre reading (a character for example).
Now this gives me some trouble, because i want to read one line (with readLine()) and subsequentially start to read a file over the InputStream. But in this case a chunk of the file while be gone from the stream becuase BufferedReader read more than just one line. How can i make sure that BufferedReader (or any other convinient reader class) takes one line from the stream and not more?
Thanks in advance.
/s

• Re: BufferedReader Brian Sanders December 10, 2001 at 2:09 PM (0)