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java.io.*? problem ?

Posted by ida on December 24, 2001 at 6:54 AM

> > I want to know if it is possible to read a whole file once into
> > a string or into a char array ( not byte[] ).
> > If it isn't possible , since I know how to read the file once into
> > a byte array, so is there anyway to convert a byte array to a char
> > array ?

> Yes. I've done this before. Create a StringBuffer to hold your data and a BufferedReader to read it in. Then, write a loop that uses readLine() to read in each line of data and append it to what you've already read.