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Delphi progammer needs help with packed records

Posted by barn on February 14, 2001 at 11:37 AM

Hello

I'm a Delphi programmer thats just started with Java and I'm trying to figure out if theres a Java equivalent of Delphi's blockread/blockwrite (or C's readFile() from winbase.h?)

I want to write a program in java to read from a flatfile created in Delphi.

The delphi prog writes a record of the form

TItem_Rec = packed record
code : integer;
desc : array[0..16] of char;
...
end;
...

using

BlockWrite(aFile,pItem_Rec(Items[i])^,SizeOf(TItem_Rec),num);

and can read it later using

BlockRead(f,anItem^,SizeOf(TItem_Rec), numRead);

Is there any other way of doing it in java than (say) the readInt() method in RandomAccessFile, followed by readChar(), followed by readChar(), etc etc. Can I create a TItem_Rec class and read the file directly into that?

Thanks

• ObjectInputStream any help? richard February 17, 2001 at 1:07 PM (1)
  • Thanks barn February 19, 2001 at 6:28 AM (0)