How to read file

[Angela D'souza]

Hi,
Let's say I have size of the file(with the contents inside) is 4000 bytes. I want to read the bytes from 0 to 500 only and I want to put that (0-500) into an array of string. How can I do this? If I can get example would be nice.
Thanks
Angela

[Steve Deadsea]

int size = 4000;
Char[] c = new Char[size];
int offset = 0;
int read = 0;
FileReader in = new FileReader("filename");
while (read != -1 && offset < size){
  read = in.read(c, offset, size-offset);
  if (read != -1) offset += read;
}
String s = new String(c);

[Siva Prasad]

How about this?

  int size = 500;
        byte[] c = new byte[size];
        String[] sA = new String[8];
int offset = 0;
RandomAccessFile in = new RandomAccessFile("something","r");
for (int i=0;(in.read(c, offset, size)) != -1;i++)
sA[i] = new String(c);

But Angela, instead of asking for the code straight away, I think you should toy with those IO Classes we have in java.io.*
They are very interesting to play with.
cheers
Siva Prasad