BigInteger back to text

[Stan Wilson]

Hi all,
I am doing some Encryption type studies and have encrypted then decrypted ok( I think). I am struggling to get what was initially a simple text file converted to byte then BigInteger, back to the same presentable text.

Can someone advise a process from BigInteger to a file save state.
What I have tried with all sorts of variations is from BigInteger, to byte [] via the toByteArray() method then String = new String(byte)..but still have all munched up characters when I view the file..

Any help appreciated.
[ August 20, 2004: Message edited by: Stan Wilson ]

[Julian Kennedy]

Hi Stan,

Since you have a text file it makes more sense to use the BigInteger(String) constructor. Try the following steps:

Read in file using FileReader wrapped in BufferedReader (use getLine() method - assuming you have one BigInteger per line in the file)

Create a new BigInteger with the String constructor

Perform whatever operation you require

Write the result back to the text file using FileWriter/BufferedWriter and BigInteger.toString()

No mangling should occur.

Hope that's useful.

Jules

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Moving this to the Intermediate forum...