[kepler-dev] string encodings

[Efrat Jaeger]

Hi Tobin,

There is a BinaryFileReader actor under 'geon' that returns an unsigned
bytes array. Perhaps this may help you.

Efrat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tobin Fricke" <tobin at splorg.org>
To: <kepler-dev at ecoinformatics.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [kepler-dev] string encodings


> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Tobin Fricke wrote:
>
> > I am using FileReader to read a binary file into a StringToken.
>
> This is somewhat suspicious (in FileReader.java) -- note the silent
> newline translation that makes FileReader break with binary files:
>
>             BufferedReader reader = fileOrURL.openForReading();
>             StringBuffer lineBuffer = new StringBuffer();
>             String newline = System.getProperty("line.separator");
>             while (true) {
>                 String line = reader.readLine();
>                 if (line == null) break;
>                 lineBuffer = lineBuffer.append(line);
>                 lineBuffer = lineBuffer.append(newline);
>             }
>             fileOrURL.close();
>             output.broadcast(new StringToken(lineBuffer.toString()));
>
> --tobin
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