I have a strange problem where I have a log file called transactionHandler.log.It is a very big file having 17102 lines.This i obtain when i do the following in the linux machine:
wc -l transactionHandler.log
17102 transactionHandler.log
But when i run the following java code and print the number of lines i get 2040 as the o/p.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Vector;
public class Reader {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
int counter = 0;
String line = null;
// Location of file to read
File file = new File("transactionHandler.log");
try {
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);
while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
line = scanner.nextLine();
System.out.println(line);
counter++;
}
scanner.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println(counter);
}
}
Can you please tell me the reason.
From what I know, Scanner
uses \n
as delimiter by default. Maybe your file has \r\n
. You could modify this by calling scanner.useDelimiter
or (and this is much better) try using this as an alternative:
import java.io.*;
public class IOUtilities
{
public static int getLineCount (String filename) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
{
LineNumberReader lnr = new LineNumberReader (new FileReader (filename));
while ((lnr.readLine ()) != null) {}
return lnr.getLineNumber ();
}
}
According to the documentation of LineNumberReader:
A line is considered to be terminated by any one of a line feed ('\n'), a carriage return ('\r'), or a carriage return followed immediately by a linefeed.
so it's very adaptable for files that have different line terminating characters.
Give it a try, see what it does.
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