[LatifaHR]

I have a text file and i need to print the lines in the reverse order

THE QUESTION: If the file has more than five lines, it will print ONLY the first five lines in the reverse order. If the file has less than five lines then these should be displayed as it appears in the file (NOT reversed).

This is the text File

Line #one
Line #two 
Line #three
Line #four
Line #five

[GregBrannon]

Your question looks like a statement, but it sets up a nice 'if' statement that describes what you need to program: attempt to read the first 6 lines from the file, if 6 lines are read, output 5 lines in reverse order, otherwise output the number of lines read in original order.

Can you use arrays?

[farrell2k]

In order to print it in reverse order, you're going to first have to read it in proper order. Just grab the lines and put them into a String[]. If it's size is > 5, print the array backwards. If not, do it forwards.