Want Help Reagarding Reading Text

[khad M]

Hi Ranchers
Hope all are fine.
Here is a one tricky Q.
Iam using the following code
to read the contents from a file.
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FileOutputStream fos1 = new FileOutputStream(file);
for(long i=0;i<filelength;i++)
{
int b = fis1.read();
}
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Question is,
After reading using read() method.......i want to print to console that particular character the Byte contains.How to do that..???

Regards
Khad M

[Barry Gaunt]

Why do you want to read from an Output stream?

[khad M]

Originally posted by Barry Gaunt:
Why do you want to read from an Output stream?

B'cas i ant to compare that character contained by the Byte with my own defined character.???
Is it sounds good..!!!

[Barry Gaunt]

But FileOutputStream does not have a read method.
The API states:

A file output stream is an output stream for writing data to a File or to a FileDescriptor.

Is your FileOutputStream actually connected to a file?
If it is you, you could use a FileInputStream to read it back in.
The code you have provided does not look correct.
You could read your byte into a single element byte
array, then construct a String object using whatever coding scheme you require, and print the resulting single character string.
[ November 08, 2002: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]