Input/Output Problem

[Siddharth Bhargava]

I have written a program to get the input from a file using DataInputStream and display it on console. The Program is as follows:

public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
try {
DataInputStream din = new DataInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream("C:\\I386\\EULA.txt")));

while((din.read())!=-1){
char c = (char)din.read();
System.out.print(c);
}

din.close();

} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}    

The problem that is coming is the output on the console is not human readable. Please tell where i am going wrong.

[Ulf Dittmer]

DataInputStream is not meant for reading clear text (which is what you're doing, judging from the filename). Leave it out and use the BufferedInputStream directly, or -even better- wrap it in a BufferedReader that allows you to read line by line.

[bart zagers]

This type of small snippets, you can easily find on the Java Developers Almanac.

[Campbell Ritchie]

If it really is a .txt file, have you tried java.util.Scanner?