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I am looking for ways to read data into a long array from data input stream
directly. I feel that wrapping Fileinputstream
using DataInputStream filter is kinda inefficient, if there is a way to let
the datainputstream to arrange 8 bytes into a long directly, it wouild be
really nice.

Any suggestions on how to realize this?

Thanks,
Jimmy

Jimmy Zhang:

>I am looking for ways to read data into a long array from data input stream
>directly. I feel that wrapping Fileinputstream
>using DataInputStream filter is kinda inefficient, if there is a way to let
>the datainputstream to arrange 8 bytes into a long directly, it wouild be
>really nice.

Why do you think it's not efficient? It's a normal approach in Java to
wrap I/O objects into other I/O objects. Just try the
DataInputStream/FileInputStream combination. However, make sure you
also include a buffering stream:

DataInput in = new DataInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(new
FileInputStream("file.dat")));
long l1 = in.readLong();
long l2 = in.readLong();
....

Regards,
Marco
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you could also at first read data in byte array and then convert bytes in
longs


"Jimmy Zhang" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:nRpob.68283$Tr4.191729@attbi_s03...
> I am looking for ways to read data into a long array from data input
stream
> directly. I feel that wrapping Fileinputstream
> using DataInputStream filter is kinda inefficient, if there is a way to
let
> the datainputstream to arrange 8 bytes into a long directly, it wouild be
> really nice.
>
> Any suggestions on how to realize this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jimmy
>
>

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:22:27 GMT, "Jimmy Zhang" <>
wrote or quoted :

>using DataInputStream filter is kinda inefficient, if there is a way to let
>the datainputstream to arrange 8 bytes into a long directly,

Have a look at the source code for DataInputStream to see how it does
it. If you can't find that look at the code for the little-endian
version at http://mindprod.com/products.html#LEADATASTREAM

For sample code for packing and unpacking bytes see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/endian.html

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