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On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:36:14 GMT, "<insert my name here>"
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>What's the easiest way to load a series of strings from a file where
>each string is simply a null-terminated string of bytes (non-unicode)
>and there are no special (ie: CR/LF) characters involved?

read them as raw bytes one at a time from a BufferedInputStream in a
loop. Then convert byte arrays you create to strings with an
encoding.

See http://mindprod.com/fileio.html for sample code to read the bytes
and http://mindprod.com/converter.html for how to convert the byte
array to a String.

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