Java Fastest way to read through text file with 2 million lines

Question

Currently I am using scanner/filereader and using while hasnextline. I think this method is not highly efficient. Is there any other method to read file with the similar functionality of this?

public void Read(String file) {
        Scanner sc = null;


        try {
            sc = new Scanner(new FileReader(file));

            while (sc.hasNextLine()) {
                String text = sc.nextLine();
                String[] file_Array = text.split(" ", 3);

                if (file_Array[0].equalsIgnoreCase("case")) {
                    //do something
                } else if (file_Array[0].equalsIgnoreCase("object")) {
                    //do something
                } else if (file_Array[0].equalsIgnoreCase("classes")) {
                    //do something
                } else if (file_Array[0].equalsIgnoreCase("function")) {
                    //do something
                } 
                else if (file_Array[0].equalsIgnoreCase("ignore")) {
                    //do something
                }
                else if (file_Array[0].equalsIgnoreCase("display")) {
                    //do something
                }
            }

        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            System.out.println("Input file " + file + " not found");
            System.exit(1);
        } finally {
            sc.close();
        }
    }

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19486077/java-fastest-way-to-read-through-text-file-with-2-million-lines

Answer 1

You will find that BufferedReader.readLine() is as fast as you need: you can read millions of lines a second with it. It is more probable that your string splitting and handling is causing whatever performance problems you are encountering.