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FileInputStream

Posted by Hiran on January 17, 2002 at 10:42 AM

But doesn't the read method return the integer value of the byte. I need the actual character. Would it work if I converted the integer value to a char and then appended it to a String?
Hiran

> how about using FileInputStream? I use that and as far as I remember, it reads byte per byte, which includes the newline and spaces.

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