Java tutorial
import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.LineNumberReader; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { int i; // create new reader FileReader fr = new FileReader("C:/test.txt"); LineNumberReader lnr = new LineNumberReader(fr); // read till the end of the stream while ((i = lnr.read()) != -1) { // skip one byte lnr.skip(1); // converts integer to char char c = (char) i; // prints char System.out.print(c); } lnr.close(); } }