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JAVA.IO.FILEINPUTSTREAM.SKIP METHOD
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Description
The java.io.FileInputStream.skiplongn skips over and discards n bytes of data from the input
stream.
Declaration
Following is the declaration for java.io.FileInputStream.skiplongn method:
public long skip(long n)
Parameters
n - the number of bytes to be skipped.
Return Value
The method returns the actual number of bytes skipped.
Exception
IOException - If an I/O error occurs, if n is negative or if the stream does not support seek.
Example
The following example shows the usage of java.io.FileInputStream.skiplongn method.
package com.tutorialspoint;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
public class FileInputStreamDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
FileInputStream fis = null;
int i=0;
char c;
try{
// create new file input stream
fis = new FileInputStream("C://test.txt");
// skip bytes from file input stream
fis.skip(4);
// read bytes from this stream
i = fis.read();
// converts integer to character
c = (char)i;
// prints
System.out.print("Character read: "+c);
}catch(Exception ex){
// if any error occurs
ex.printStackTrace();
}finally{
// releases all system resources from the streams
if(fis!=null)
fis.close();
}
}
}
Assuming we have a text file c:/test.txt, which has the following content. This file will be used as
an input for our example program:
ABCDEF
Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:
Character read: E
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