Question

I am trying to read a UTF-8 encoded file as follows-

import java.io.*;

class main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception {
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("temp.txt"), "UTF-8"));
        String line;
        line = br.readLine();
        line = line.trim();
        boolean val1 = line.length() != 0;
        boolean val2 = !line.startsWith("//");
        System.out.println(val1 + " " + val2);
        br.close();
    }
}

File temp.txt contains first line as-

//,<verb>,<verb>

So, the output should be

true false

But I get output as

true true

Can somebody tell me how to fix this?

Answer 1

Open your temp.txt in a text editor and make sure that you don’t have any characters in front of the //.