Read file X lines

[Carsten Rasmussen]

This is how i read my data.txt file.

		String filename = request.getRealPath("/") + "/data.txt"; 
		
		ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
		final int responseContentLength=7600;
		InputStream in = new FileInputStream(filename);
		byte[] bytes = new byte[responseContentLength];
		int bytesRead;
		
		while ((bytesRead = in.read(bytes)) != -1) {    
			out.write(bytes, 0, bytesRead);
		}
		
	  	in.close();
                                out.close();

I would like to read in bytes still, but is there a way to read maybe only 40 lines of the file in bytes.
My head hurts on this one so please help.

[Ramkumar Subburaj]

try this one

   
FileReader fr = new FileReader("fileName.txt");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
String s;
int lineCount = 1;
while((s = br.readLine()) != null && lineCount <= 40) {
    System.out.println(s);
    lineCount ++;
}
fr.close();