[brailleblaster] Re: java Byte arrays and string literals
- From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:43:33 -0600
thanks. It is coming along. I just bit off a bit of learning curve with
this package, so I hope no one thinks it's too bad... If you want you can
all come to MN and throw snowballs at my house -- if you can get to my
house -- we just had a foot or more fall in a very short time.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris von See" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 9:25 PM
Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: java Byte arrays and string literals
You may have already figured this out, but in case you haven't... You
can "cheat" and do something like this -
byte[] testBytes = "This is a test".getBytes();
or use one of the variations that allow you to set the character
encoding, such as:
byte[] testBytes = "This is a test".getBytes("UTF-8");
Creating String objects from byte arrays is also very easy - you can
use one of the String constructors that takes a byte array.
Cheers
Chris
On Dec 11, 2010, at 6:37 PM, qubit wrote:
> Hi -- ok,
> Sina, on the other list you said I was taking the wrong approach.
> That is
> altogether possible as I am pushing up against a few awkward bits of
> code
> that should not be necessary, IMO, and I think you agree.
>
> The awkwardness I am experiencing comes when a method needs to call
> another
> method from another package, not written by me.
> My class is now compiling, and I think should work, but I am having
> problems
> with the test.main method.
> What I'm wondering is either how to initialize this Byte array with
> the
> characters of "This is a test.".
> javac keeps barfing on that.
> I pass this byte array to a method in my class, as input to the
> OutputStream
> I am writing to. The reason I am passing this is because the
> OutputStream/InputStream classes and their descendants contain the
> following
> definitions respectively:
> void write(Byte[] buf, int startPos, int len )
> int read(Byte[] buf, int startPos, len);
>
> Comments?
> TIA
> --le
>
>
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