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writing froma stream to a File

 
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I'm Trying to write to a file. what exactly do i need to correct here. Right now it just keeps creating an empty file. Why's that?


[ December 11, 2007: Message edited by: Wolfgang Obi ]
 
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Where do you think you are writing something to the file ?
 
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You need to read from the input stream, then copy that to the output stream.

You can do this byte per byte using the read() and write(int) methods, but experience has tought me that using the read(byte[]) and write(byte[], int, int) methods are a lot faster most of the times.

If you're using the byte[] versions, don't forget that read(byte[]) returns the number of bytes actually read. Don't always just go writing the entire array - you'll write garbage at the end of the file.
 
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