title: Cant find the newline character in a file (java)
body: <p>I am trying to get the last line of a file, but my output shows that it never finds it. I also tried looking for "[" which all the lines start with, but unless the jumps were perfect the program will not skip "[". I tried looking for "\r\n", System.getProperty("line.separator"), \r and \n. Most probably its a dumb mistake, but if I had it and I couldn't find it, then someone else may run into it too. </p>
  
  <pre><code>        RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(fileLocation, "r");
          //Finds the end of the file, and takes a little more
          long lastSegment = raf.length() - 5;
          //**Looks for the new line character \n?**
          //if it cant find it then take 5 more and look again.
          while(stringBuffer.lastIndexOf("\n") == -1)  {
              lastSegment = lastSegment-5;
              raf.seek(lastSegment);
              //Not sure this is the best way to do it
              String seen = raf.readLine();
              stringBuffer.append(seen);
          }
          //Trying to debug it and understand
          int location = stringBuffer.lastIndexOf("\n");
          System.out.println(location);
          FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fileLocation);
          InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis, "UTF8");
          BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
          br.skip(lastSegment);
          System.out.println("br.readLine() " + br.readLine());
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The idea from the code comes from 
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/686231/java-quickly-read-the-last-line-of-a-text-file">Quickly read the last line of a text file?</a></p>
  
  <p>The file I use is this
  <a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/i4rXwEXz/file.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.4shared.com/file/i4rXwEXz/file.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Thanks for the help, and if you see any other places where my code could be improve let me know</p>