Here's my stab at it: https://gist.github.com/976020 https://gist.github.com/976020 I think the biggest advantage of Clojure over Java for code like this is h

Here's my stab at it: https://gist.github.com/976020 https://gist.github.com/976020 I think the biggest advantage of Clojure over Java for code like this is how easy it is to use lazy sequences and higher-order functions. In this example there isn't much to be gained in the error-handling and logging; however, if there were other similar functions it might be easier to factor out some of the common patterns in Clojure, since functions like the predicate to ignore a line can be easily passed through. Or, for example, you could write a custom version of with-open or line-seq to do the desired logging behind-the-scenes.