Re: Is there a DataOutput buffer in Java?
Bryan wrote:
Hi Knute,
I'm sending mainly ints and floats. I tried the System.out method, but
since DataOutput writes the actual bytes of the data passed to it not
much shows up on the screen when I print smaller int values since most
of the lower ascii values are unprintable. What I'd really like to be
able to do is write to some sort of catch-all buffer where I could then
get the contents of the buffer and print the values in a hex
representation.
Try this:
import java.io.*;
public class test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(baos);
dos.writeInt(1234);
dos.writeInt(2);
dos.writeInt(65535);
dos.writeFloat(1.234f);
dos.writeDouble(1234.5);
dos.flush();
dos.close();
byte[] buf = baos.toByteArray();
for (int i=0; i<buf.length; i++)
System.out.print(String.format("%02X ",buf[i]));
}
}
knute...
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