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Apache Commons IO is a java library with simple IO utilities and filters. This requires the library commons-io-2.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using FileUtils.lineIterator() API.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_io/tests/LineIteratorTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_io.tests;



import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;



import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import org.apache.commons.io.LineIterator;



public class LineIteratorTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    File file = new File("C:/Test/rule_engine_names.txt");

    LineIterator lineIt = FileUtils.lineIterator(file, "UTF-8");

    

    while (lineIt.hasNext()) {

      System.out.println(lineIt.next());

    }

    

    LineIterator.closeQuietly(lineIt);

  }

}

Line Iterator