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

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Syntax

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

public long skip(long n)  throws IOException

Example

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

/*w  w w .  j  a v  a  2s  .c o  m*/
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.StringReader;

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

    String s = "from java2s.com";

    // create and assign a new string reader
    StringReader sr = new StringReader(s);

    // create new buffered reader
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(sr);

    // reads and prints BufferedReader
    int value = 0;
    while ((value = br.read()) != -1) {
      // skips a character
      br.skip(1);
      System.out.print((char) value);
    }

  }
}

The code above generates the following result.

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