Strange question about character encoding

[Min Huang]

My assignments wants me to use ASCII encoding, and I thought it would be as simple as calling the String constructor and String.getBytes with the appropriate CharSet object, but...
Upon rereading my assignment, I noticed it says I'm not allowed to use any of the nio facilities, and CharSet is in the nio package. Does anybody know how to get around this?

[Don Wood]

Here's what I'm doing. I think it's ok.

            tmpName = new byte[fldNameLen];
            raf.readFully(tmpName);
            fldNames[i] = (new String(tmpName, "US-ASCII")).trim();

[Min Huang]

Cool thanks.