Java tutorial
import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.ByteBuffer; import java.nio.channels.SeekableByteChannel; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Path; import java.nio.file.Paths; public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { Path path = Paths.get("/users.txt"); try (SeekableByteChannel sbc = Files.newByteChannel(path)) { ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(1024); sbc.position(4); sbc.read(buffer); for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { System.out.print((char) buffer.get(i)); } buffer.clear(); sbc.position(0); sbc.read(buffer); for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) { System.out.print((char) buffer.get(i)); } } } }