Properties: how do I read the comments in it?

I'm using a Properties object to read key-value pairs. But I found I also need to read the comments in the properties file. How can I do that? :)

I think that once you start having that level of detail (eg descriptions) associated with properties, then you should go the XML route.
Property files are great, but for quick control of basically one-dimensional properties. You can use "load" on the file, they're easy to edit in just about any text editor, it's great. But once you need multi-dimensional attributes to the properties, you must use something richer.
If you're writing some kind of Properties file editor -- maybe you're forced to use Properties files for backwards compatibility but you're trying to make them easier to edit for non-techies? -- then you'd skip the Properties.load method, and parse them yourself, with FileReader as yawmark suggested. Of course once you're doing this, you'll be reading both the comments and the properties, and furthermore you'll be imposing some kind of convention ("comments always come before properties, not after", "a blank line separates comments") which can easily be violated, to your chagrin.
I say, either skip trying to read comments, or move up to XML or something, if you possibly can.

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