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I have a file say which has 5000 characters.
I am reading the first 1000 characters and closing my file. I want to delete these first 1000 characters from the file. How can I do that?

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Rewrite the remaining 4000 in a new file, delete the old file, and rename the new file to the old file's name.

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actually 5000 char was just an example. My file size is more than 200 MB. So I guess rewriting will waste alot of time.
So I wanted to delete the characters from my original file itself.

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No, since you can't "just delete the first whatever". Maybe with some other language would allow you to manipulate the file system in such a way as to move the pointer designating the file to another position on the file system, but Java (and most other languages) do not, generally, give such control.

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