Java Glossary : readLine

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readLine
readLine will return "" for a null line in a file, and a null when you hit EOF. It won't raise an EOFException! It just keeps returning null. The string that readLine returns does not include the terminating \n, \r or \r\n pair. Only Buffered classes support readLine.

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