OnJava8-Examples/files/ListOfLines.java

// files/ListOfLines.java
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import java.util.*;
import java.nio.file.*;

public class ListOfLines {
  public static void
  main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(
      Paths.get("../streams/Cheese.dat"));
    for(String line : lines) {
      if(line.startsWith("//"))
        continue;
      System.out.println(
        line.substring(0, line.length()/2));
    }

  }
}
/* Output:
Not much of a cheese
Finest in the
And what leads you
Well, it's
It's certainly uncon
*/