Hi all, I would like to pull specific lines from a very large text file - several gigs, so way too large to use loadStrings().

I have a version working that uses a BufferedReader and readLine() to pull every line from the file sequentially.  Looking through the documentation, it appears that readLine() starts at line 0 and each time called increments which line it gets.  Is this correct?

If I want to pull a specific line, say #100, is this possible?

Here's a piece of my code, where I'm reading from a text file of hex color values and filling every pixel with those values.  I need specific lines so when I reach a certain number, the file is saved and the process is started again but at the next point in the text file.

1.    // read hex values from the text file and fill pixels[] with those values
     loadPixels();
     numPx = pixels.length;
     for (int i=0; i<numPx; i++) {
   
       // read line from file
       try {
         hexLine = reader.readLine();
         println(count + ": " + hexLine);
         count++;
       }
       // if there's an issue, print the error and quit
       catch (IOException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
         hexLine = null;
         println("Error reading file!");
         exit();
       }
     }