Hello Manoj,
Welcome to JavaRanch. You wrote:
I understand this portion, but following is confusing me:
Scheme Description Section
Repeated for each field in record:
2 byte numeric, length in byte of field name
n bytes (defined by previous entry),filed name
2 byte numeric, field length in bytes
end of repeating block.
My problem is that I don�t understand what these two refers
1) n bytes (defined by previous entry),filed name
2) 2 byte numeric, field length in bytes
I am not sure which assignment are you doing. I am doing URLy Bird 1.3.1. What I am about to explain to you works well for me. It should apply to your assignment as well.
1) 2 byte numeric, length in byte of field name - The first field in my file is called "name" as shown in my instructions. If you read the two bytes field as a "int" numeric, it should give you a value of 4 since name is 4 bytes long.
2) n bytes (defined by previous entry),filed name - Based on the fact the value just read is 4 bytes long, you read the next four bytes, but this time using another method which will read it as ASCII bytes but not a numeric. This should give you the value as "name". Here n = 4.
3) 2 byte numeric, field length in bytes - The next two bytes
you should read as "int" using an appropriate method. In my assignment the name field is defined as 64 US-ASCII bytes wide. When you print the value that you have read here, it should yeild 64.
Doe it help?
Regards.
Bharat