Line Endings

[V Bose]

I'm trying to use the class

java.io.SequenceInputStream

to read from a collection of

java.io.InputStream

s.

Assuming I have two seperate InputStreams wrapping two seperate files that look something like -

File A:
Line 1 : Apple
Line 2 : Oranges<EOF>

File B:
Line 1 : Pears
Line 2 : Grapes<EOF>

When I try to concatenate these two streams and read them using java.io.SequenceInputStream, Line 1: Pears is never read.(Assuming the concatenation ordering is File A, File B) But if I change File A to this -
File A:
Line 1 : Apple
Line 2 : Oranges
<EOF>

(there is a <CR> after Oranges this time), then it works fine. Is this something to do with how <EOF>s are encoded in Windows?

[Joni Salonen]

<EOF> is not a character that is present in the file. This discussion is written for C/C++ but appliest just as well in Java:
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/smartfaq.cgi?answer=1048865140&id=1043284351

If you have problems reading past the contents of the first file, there has to be some other problem.

Can you post a small snippet of code that demonstrates your problem?

[Joni Salonen]

ah, now i get it. when you concatenate the two files you end up with

Line 1 : Apple
Line 2 : OrangesLine 1 : Pears
Line 2 : Grapes

because there is no line break after the last line of the first file or before the first line of the second file.