[hinokata]

Originally Posted by cfc

[list=1][*]nio probably doesn't have anything as high-level as that, but it should be capable of offering similar functionality with some additional code (detecting '\n' in a CharBuffer I think).

NIO doesn't even make it that easy.

Ok, here's the standard IO version

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.BufferedReader;

public class SampleFileReader
{
	public static void main( String args[] )
        {
		try
		{	
            		File fp = new File( "SomeFileSomewhere.txt" );
            		FileReader reader = new FileReader( fp );
            		BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader( reader );
            		String line;

            		while( (line = input.readLine()) != null )
            		{
                 		System.out.println( line );
            		}

			reader.close();
		}
		catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace();	}
        }
}

And here's the NIO version. We're just reading in and printing out. If you want "readline" capability, you have to build that in which requires a bit more coding and is slightly more complex. I HIGHLY recommend the standard version for the original poster.

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.ReadableByteChannel;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder;
import java.io.FileInputStream;

public class SampleNIOReader
{
	public static void main( String args[] )
	{
		try
		{
			Charset charset = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
			CharsetDecoder decoder = charset.newDecoder();
			ReadableByteChannel chan = new FileInputStream("someFileSomewhere.txt").getChannel();
			ByteBuffer bBuf = ByteBuffer.allocate(1024);
			int bytesRead = 0;
			while( bytesRead >= 0 )
			{
				bBuf.rewind();
				bytesRead = chan.read( bBuf );
				bBuf.flip();
				System.out.println( decoder.decode(bBuf).toString() );
			}
			chan.close();
		}
		catch( Exception e ) { e.printStackTrace();	}
	}
}

** Please note that the above code snips are NOT production quality, but should give you and a good idea as to how to read a file in. In your code, you should do some error handling, etc.