I have a text file with 500 lines. I placed this text file in app/src/main/assets folder with the name "words.txt". In this file each line is separated with line break. Now i need to get random line from this text file. I visited following questions prior to posting this.
How to load random line from text file in android?
InputStreamReader and reading random lines from .txt file
How to grab a random line from a text file and print the line [duplicate]
How to get a random line of a text file in Java?
Reading a random line from text file in android
I have constructed my code from above links as well as this one. I did not know that some class called line number reader exists.
Here is my code:
try {
//Initialize assetmanager class
AssetManager am = this.getAssets();
//open file using asset manager
InputStream is = am.open("words.txt");
//read buffer manager
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
//Important: use of LineNumberReader Class
LineNumberReader lnr = new LineNumberReader(reader);
Random r = new Random();
int n = r.nextInt(500)+1;
lnr.setLineNumber(n);
mWord = lnr.readLine();
Log.d("MyLog","The letter is "+mWord);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Now this code works but always gives the first line. The random number is generated but the lnr (LineNumberReader) reads first line always. Why?
This is for learning purpose. For current case i know the length of file (or total no of lines) are 500.