Hadoop 101 - Read a local file using bufferreader

bufferreader.java

            import java.io.BufferedReader;
            import java.io.FileReader;
            import java.io.IOException;

            public static final String InitialActivationList = "/.../Initial_Activation_List.txt";
            String toBeActivated;
        
	    public void loadInitialActivation(String InitialActivationList, int linenum_index) throws IOException {			
		    String line; 
		    int linenum = 0;
		    
		    BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(InitialActivationList));
		    while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {	    	
		    	linenum = linenum + 1;
		    	if (linenum == linenum_index) { 
		    		toBeActivated = line.toString();
		    		break;
		    	}
		    }
		    
		    bufferedReader.close();
		    
	    }