Question

I am trying to read from a socket until I reach “\0” (null). This is the terminator used by Flash. I had this problem also, in C(++).

while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {   
    outputLine = kkp.processInput(inputLine);
    out.println(outputLine);
    if (outputLine.equals("Bye."))
    break;
}

This example code from the Oracle Java documentation will not work in my situation because “readLine” will only count \r\n and such. I’m not sure how to read into a buffer, I have some ideas as to how I’d do it but I’m not sure how to implement.

Answer 1

You can do

InputStream in = socket.getInputStream();

for(int b; ((b = in.read()) > 0;) {
   // do something with b.
}
// stops at end of file or b == 0.