package linenbr7; import java.io.*; public class LineNbr7 { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { File f = new File(args[0]); if (!f.isFile() || !f.canRead()) throw new IOException("can't read " + args[0]); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(f)); try (LineNumberReader lnr = new LineNumberReader(br)) { String line = null; int lnum = 0; while ((line = lnr.readLine()) != null && (lnum = lnr.getLineNumber()) < 7) { } switch (lnum) { case 0: System.out.println("the file has zero length"); break; case 7: boolean empty = "".equals(line); System.out.println("line 7: " + (empty ? "empty" : line)); break; default: System.out.println("the file has only " + lnum + " line(s)"); } } } }