Searching for a text in the file.

I have a to search for a particular text, in the file.
Since my file is of large size, I do not want to read the file line by line searching for the text.
Is there any API which will help me do this?

arc_g wrote:
Having found the text in the file, I want to read from that point/index to the end of the file.That I can do using RandomAcessFile.
The point is to find the text in the fileIf your problem is related to http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5378628&tstart=0 then you do not want to search from the front of the file.

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