Socket I/O

[Greg]

I am trying to work with Socket IO. I know you can read byte data via the
getInputStream() method but is there a way to read character data from the
socket ?


Thanks
Greg

[Paul Clapham]

You read the bytes into a byte array and then convert them to String, using
the constructor that takes a byte array as its parameter.

PC2

"Greg" <gjtaylor@tycoelectronics.com> wrote in message
news:3af2a00a$1@news.devx.com...
>
> I am trying to work with Socket IO. I know you can read byte data via the
> getInputStream() method but is there a way to read character data from the
> socket ?
>
>
> Thanks
> Greg

[Lewis Kwan]

"Greg" <gjtaylor@tycoelectronics.com> wrote:
>
>I am trying to work with Socket IO. I know you can read byte data via the
>getInputStream() method but is there a way to read character data from the
>socket ?
>
>
>Thanks
>Greg

Greg,

You can wrap some 'reader' stream around the Input stream obtained from the
getInputStream() method as follow:

InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader ( sock.getInputStream()
);

and then issue reads against 'isr'.

Lewis, Toronto