Hi,
I want to know is there any efficient way to find out the number of records in the variable length text file.
I have tried 2 ways using BufferedReader & LineNumberReader but I am getting a same performance.To count 50,000 records both APIs taking 12 seconds.But is there any other way to calculate the above functionality.
Code ex
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System.out.println(new Date());
LineNumberReader in = new LineNumberReader(new FileReader("test.txt"));
while(in.readLine() != null);
System.out.println(in.getLineNumber());
System.out.println(new Date());
in.close();
System.out.println(new Date());
BufferedReader bf = new BufferedReader( new FileReader("test.txt"));
int count = 0;
while(bf.readLine() != null)
count++;
System.out.println(count);
System.out.println(new Date());
Thanks
Saran.