Getting a specific line in a file?

Is there any way to get a specific line saved in a file without iterating through each line?
Here is what I am currently doing

Code:

String toGet = "Line to get";
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(this.path));
for (String line; (line = reader.readLine()) != null;) {
    if(line.equals(toGet) {
        //The line equals toGet
    }
}

 

Not as far I know, you'll need to iterate through all of them.

 

Konato_K Damn it gets fairly slow at like 100 lines. Thanks though.

 

Skionz Try to use a different method of storage then

 

Konato_K Yea I would use a database in a different situation but I'm writing an API for file storage so I am just trying to make it more efficient.

 

Skionz A more "efficient" way (in terms of speed) it's to use one file for whatever you're trying to do (let's say you want to store data of players, so you create a file for each), but this will cause a high disk usage.

Also if you know git, the object files are stored in folders named with the first two letters of it, not sure if you get what I mean

 

More efficient way to make each line to have fixed size, like 128 or 666 bytes.
In case of 100th line you simply read file with offset of 128*100 with length of 128.

Normally i would suggest to read zip or FAT32 format specifications, but it's unlikely for you to implement allocation table and payload.