How to move inputStream back to the first line?

Hi,

I have an inputStream to read a text file:

BufferedReader inputStream = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
String line = inputStream.readLine();

After reading several lines, I hope to bring inputStream back to the first line. How can I do it?

Right now, I do:

inputStream.close();
BufferedReader inputStream = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName)); //start over again. I feel it is a dumb way.

Thank you.
.

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