Noob question

[khublai786]

I am new to Java - I have read the first few chapters of the Objects First in BlueJ book.

I want to create code that will read a file and display its content in hex format. I will then devlop this code as my studying progresses.

I was wondering if anybody could help me get started - I have looked the FileReader classes in the Java.IO package. I was also wondering if I could iterate through the file and put individual characters into an Arraylist. Could this be done?

Thanks in advance

[aniseed]

Yes, this is possible. FileReader.ready() indicates if the file could be read further (which could be used to check for each iteration) and FileReader.read() could read a character or a set of characters (with a buffer array specified). If you want to read line by line, use BufferedReader instead.

[Norm]

If the file is not ASCII text, you will need to use a class that reads bytes vs characters.
See InputStream and its subclasses such as FileInputStream. The read method will read bytes into an array which may be easier to convert to hex than characters.
bytes can be cast to int and then processed by the Integer class method that can create a hexString.

[khublai786]

Right - I have managed to get my file into a byte array. They appear as decimal representations of the ASCII characters. How do I now manipulate this array to output the binary, hex or even the ASCII characters equivalents of these decimal values?

Thanx in advance