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

guava has something similar:

List Files.readLines(File file, Charset charset);

So you can do

String line = Files.readLines(file, Charsets.UTF_8).get(lineNumber);