Reading text files in a zip archive

Question

I have zip archive that contains a bunch of plain text files in it. I want to parse each text files data. Here\'s what I\'ve written so far:

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Answer 1

No, you don't need a RandomAccessFile. First get an InputStream with the data for this zip file entry:

InputStream input = zipFile.getInputStream(entry);

Then wrap it in an InputStreamReader (to decode from binary to text) and a BufferedReader (to read a line at a time):

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input, "UTF-8"));

Then read lines from it as normal. Wrap all the appropriate bits in try/finally blocks as usual, too, to close all resources.