BufferedReader skip the first line

Question

I use the following bufferedreader to read the lines of a file,

 BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(somepath)); while ((line1 = reader.readLine()) != null) { //some code } 

Now I want to skip reading the first line of the file, and I don't want to use the int lineno count line to save the number of lines.

How to do it?

Answer 1

You can try this

  BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(somepath)); reader.readLine(); // this will read the first line String line1=null; while ((line1 = reader.readLine()) != null){ //loop will run from 2nd line //some code } 

Answer 2

Use firmware instead.

 LineNumberReader reader = new LineNumberReader(new InputStreamReader(file.getInputStream())); String line1; while ((line1 = reader.readLine()) != null) { if(reader.getLineNumber()==1){ continue; } System.out.println(line1); } 

Answer 3

 File file = new File("path to file"); FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fis)); String line = null; int count = 0; while((line = br.readLine()) != null) { // read through file line by line if(count != 0) { // count == 0 means the first line System.out.println("That not the first line"); } count++; // count increments as you read lines } br.close(); // do not forget to close the resources 

Answer 4

You can create a counter that contains the value of the start line:

 private final static START_LINE = 1; BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(somepath)); int counter=START_LINE; while ((line1 = reader.readLine()) != null) { if(counter>START_LINE){ //your code here } counter++; } 

Answer 5

You can do it as follows:

 BufferedReader buf = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName)); String line = null; String[] wordsArray; boolean skipFirstLine = true; while(true){ line = buf.readLine(); if ( skipFirstLine){ // skip data header skipFirstLine = false; continue; } if(line == null){ break; }else{ wordsArray = line.split("\t"); } buf.close();