BufferedReader is skipping every other line when reading my file in java

Question

So Im working of reading a file containing appointments that I wrote to earlier in my code. I want to sift through the text file and find appointments on a certain date and

Answer 1

You have error here:

while ((read = in.readLine()) != null) 
 read = in.readLine();

you should keep the read = in.readLine() in the while. and remove the other line.