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i making log , want read last line of log.txt file, i'm having trouble getting bufferedreader stop once last line read.

here's code:

try {     string scurrentline;      br = new bufferedreader(new filereader("c:\\testing.txt"));      while ((scurrentline = br.readline()) != null) {         system.out.println(scurrentline);     } } catch (ioexception e) {     e.printstacktrace(); } {     try {         if (br != null)br.close();     } catch (ioexception ex) {         ex.printstacktrace();     } } 

here's solution.

in code, create auxiliary variable called lastline , reinitialize current line so:

    string lastline = "";      while ((scurrentline = br.readline()) != null)      {         system.out.println(scurrentline);         lastline = scurrentline;     }