skip() method of BufferedInputStream class creates a byte array and then repeatedly reads into it until n bytes have been read or the end of the stream has been reached.
Skips over and discards n bytes of data from this input stream. The skip method may, for a variety of reasons, end up skipping over some smaller number of bytes, possibly 0. This may result from any of a number of conditions; reaching end of file before n bytes have been skipped is only one possibility. The actual number of bytes skipped is returned. If n is negative, no bytes are skipped.
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/**********************************************************************************
* Created on Nov, 2004 Copyright(c) https://kodehelp.com All Rights Reserved.
**********************************************************************************/
package com.kodehelp.java.io;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* @author https://kodehelp.com
*
*/
public class BufferedInputStreamSkip {
/**
* @param args
* @throws IOException
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(new File(“/test.txt”));
BufferedInputStream bufferedInputStream = new BufferedInputStream(fileInputStream);
while (bufferedInputStream.available() > 0) {
System.out.println((char) bufferedInputStream.read());
bufferedInputStream.skip(2);
}
bufferedInputStream.close();
}
}
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