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POCant find the newline character in a file (java)
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copied!<p>I am trying to get the last line of a file, but my output shows that it never finds it. I also tried looking for "[" which all the lines start with, but unless the jumps were perfect the program will not skip "[". I tried looking for "\r\n", System.getProperty("line.separator"), \r and \n. Most probably its a dumb mistake, but if I had it and I couldn't find it, then someone else may run into it too. </p> <pre><code> RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(fileLocation, "r"); //Finds the end of the file, and takes a little more long lastSegment = raf.length() - 5; //**Looks for the new line character \n?** //if it cant find it then take 5 more and look again. while(stringBuffer.lastIndexOf("\n") == -1) { lastSegment = lastSegment-5; raf.seek(lastSegment); //Not sure this is the best way to do it String seen = raf.readLine(); stringBuffer.append(seen); } //Trying to debug it and understand int location = stringBuffer.lastIndexOf("\n"); System.out.println(location); FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fileLocation); InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis, "UTF8"); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr); br.skip(lastSegment); System.out.println("br.readLine() " + br.readLine()); } </code></pre> <p>The idea from the code comes from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/686231/java-quickly-read-the-last-line-of-a-text-file">Quickly read the last line of a text file?</a></p> <p>The file I use is this <a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/i4rXwEXz/file.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.4shared.com/file/i4rXwEXz/file.html</a></p> <p>Thanks for the help, and if you see any other places where my code could be improve let me know</p>

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