mark() -- reset()

Hi friends
Consider the code
import java.io.*;
class instream{
public static void main(String []a){
try{ String st="abcdefghijklmnop";
byte[] b=st.getBytes();
ByteArrayInputStream s=new ByteArrayInputStream(b);
int i=s.available();
for ( int z=0;z<=i-1 ;z++ ){ System.out.println((char)s.read());
if(z==3) s.mark(2);// Line1
}
s.reset();
System.out.println(" reseting done "+(char)s.read());
}
catch(Exception e){System.out.println("cant");}
}
}
The problem is that on line 1 I'm giving a parameter of value 2 to mark method it means validity of marking position should
expire (as given by Api doc ) but still I'm getting 'e' at the end.
please help!

[This message has been edited by Nasir Khan (edited December 05, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by Nasir Khan (edited December 05, 2000).]

In InputStream, mark(int readAheadLimit) will invalidate the mark after the number of bytes read exceed the readAheadLimit. ByteInputStream overrides this and doen't do the invalidation that InputStream does, your mark will remain until you change it.

Thanks Carl
I've been snooping the source code of InputStream classes and found out that readAheadLimit doesn't work with
ByteInputStream but It should work with BufferedInputStream object .so I tried with this
import java.io.*;
class instream{
public static void main(String []a){
try{ String st="abcdefghijklmnop";
byte[] b=st.getBytes();
ByteArrayInputStream s=new ByteArrayInputStream(b);
BufferedInputStream d=new BufferedInputStream(s);
int i=d.available();
for ( int z=0;z<=i-1 ;z++ ){ System.out.println((char)d.read());
if(z==3) d.mark(2);// Line1
}
d.reset();
System.out.println(" reseting done "+(char)d.read());
}
catch(Exception e){System.out.println("cant");}
}
}
But still the same ... mark position doesn't get invlidated after reading 2 no of bytes.
It means we can't make a use of it here as well..
Is that right?or i'm making some mistake ..
There's no way using mark reset method with FileInputStream , ObjectInputStream,PushbackInputStream,
SequenceInputStream and DataInputStream .Am I right?

It still won't work because the underlaying stream is a ByteArrayInputStream.....

The other InputStreams you mention, all inherate direct from InputStream and do not override mark() or rest() so... As long as your not creating them on a ByteArrayInputStream, mark and rest will work as documented in InptStream.

But BufferedInputStream is behaving as a wrapper around ByteArrayInputStream and I think all functioality will be
provided by BufferedIputStream not by ByteArrayInputStream.

Same as "Whose run() to use"

Sorry naveen I couldn't get you.