BufferedReader to skip first line

Question

I am using 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 a counter line int lineno to keep a count of the lines.

How to do this?

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

You can use the Stream skip() function, like this:

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(somepath));   
Stream<String> lines = reader.lines().skip(1);

lines.forEachOrdered(line -> {

...
});

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's not the first line");
    }
    count++; // count increments as you read lines
}
br.close(); // do not forget to close the resources

Answer 4

Use a linenumberreader 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 5

You can create a counter that contains the value of the starting 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 6

You can do it like this:

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();