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getSize() is wrong

Posted by ping203 on December 20, 2001 at 3:34 PM

Hi,

int + int + Sting + double
= 4 + 4 + (length-15) + 8
= 31
however, since you are using writeChars(String), Java writes it as 2-byte (Writes a char to the file as a two-byte value, high byte first. see the API for writeChar)
therefore, the getSize() should return
4 + 4 + 15*2 + 8
= 46