Java IO Tutorial - Java FilterReader.skip(long n)

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Syntax

FilterReader.skip(long n) has the following syntax.

public long skip(long n)  throws IOException

Example

In the following code shows how to use FilterReader.skip(long n) method.

// ww w.  j a va 2  s .  c o m

import java.io.FilterReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StringReader;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    int i = 0;

    // create new reader
    Reader r = new StringReader("from java2s.com");

    // create new filter reader
    FilterReader fr = new FilterReader(r) {
    };

    // read till the end of the filter reader
    while ((i = fr.read()) != -1) {
      // convert integer to character
      char c = (char) i;

      // prints
      System.out.println("Character read: " + c);

      // number of characters actually skipped
      long l = fr.skip(2);

      // prints
      System.out.println("Character skipped: " + l);
    }

  }
}

The code above generates the following result.

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