Reading a specific line from a text file in Java

Question

Is there any method to read a specific line from a text file ? In the API or Apache Commons. Something like :

String readLine(File file, int lineNumber)
         


        

Answer 1

If the lines you were reading were all the same length, then a calculation might be useful.

But in the situation when the lines are different lengths, I don't think there's an alternative to reading them one at a time until the line count is correct.