Reading a specific line from a text file in Java

by 
String line = FileUtils.readLines(file).get(lineNumber);

would do, but it still has the efficiency problem.

Alternatively, you can use:

 LineIterator it = IOUtils.lineIterator(
       new BufferedReader(new FileReader("file.txt")));
 for (int lineNumber = 0; it.hasNext(); lineNumber++) {
    String line = (String) it.next();
    if (lineNumber == expectedLineNumber) {
        return line;
    }
 }

This will be slightly more efficient due to the buffer.

Take a look at Scanner.skip(..) and attempt skipping whole lines (with regex). I can’t tell if it will be more efficient – benchmark it.

P.S. with efficiency I mean memory efficiency

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