posted 21 years ago
My instructions say:
All numeric values are stored in the header information use the formats of the DataInputStream and DataOutputStream classes. All text values, and all fields (which are text only), contain only 8 bit characters, null terminated if less than the maximum length for the field. The character encoding is 8 bit US ASCII.
What does "null terminated if less than the maximum lenght for the field".
Does this mean a field that is suppossed to be 64 characters in the file,
may be less and if so it has a null indicator on the end?
If so this screws up my entire process of reading in the file!!!
I read another post regarding this issue but it did not make things
clear for me.