Re: Speeding up reading from files
On 1/21/2010 2:31 AM, Mark wrote:
Hi,
I am using a BufferedReader to read character data in from a file. It
works but it's incredibly slow. (The file consists of a number of
separate messages, each separated by a special character. Each
message must be read into a separate string.)
I use the following code (exception handling removed for brevity):
String text = new String("");
BufferedReader in = null;
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new
FileInputStream(_msgFile)));
int c;
while ((c = in.read()) != -1) {
if (c == '@') {
_msgList.add(text);
text = "";
} else {
text += (char)c;
}
}
if (text.length()> 0) {
_msgList.add(text);
}
I would go at this a little differently. Use a BufferedInputStream with
a very large buffer and pass it to a Scanner. That way you can pull off
the Strings directly.
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