Java Programming

I'm using a BufferedReader with a FileReader to read a file for further processing in my program. However it somehow refuses to read any blank lines at the end of the file.

The file consists of lines with various keywords and values, separated into block by blank lines. An emptyline at the end of the file is required to allow the program to recognize the end of the last block of data in the file.
(well, not by me.. it's a school assignment which requires me to read and use the final empty line, and generate and error message when a file has multiple blank lines. hence why i have to read in every line in the file, rather then solving the problem by simply adding a bit of code to add an extra blank line after reading in the file.)