Re: In need of something like RandomAccessFile.read(char[] cAr, int off, int len)
Knute Johnson wrote:
Mike Schilling wrote:
Knute Johnson wrote:
lbrtchx@gmail.com wrote:
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http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/RandomAccessFile.html
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has:
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public int read(byte[] b,
int off,
int len)
throws IOException
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But I need to read in and compare chars/Unicode
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I have tried many things but I haven't been able to find out how
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What kind of carpentry do you do with I/O objects to achieve
such
a
thing?
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Thanks
lbrtchx
Besides RandomAccessFile.readChar() you could get a FileChannel,
read
in a buffer and convert it to a CharBuffer. But seek() and
readChar()
ought to be adequate.
ISTM that there should be an InputStream subclass that reads bytes
from a RandomAccessFile starting at a given offset. It's not
difficult to construct, but why doesn't it come standard?
It does. He wanted to read chars and that is alittle more
complicated
because you have to read two bytes at a time.
If there were an InputStream, you coiuld attach an InputStreamReader
to it and read characters in any encoding you like. Unfortunately,
there isn't one.
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