Question

I’m trying to display whats in the file header which should be text (the rest of the file is binary) but when I print strtemp I get this:

strTemp: ??????

Here is the code.

String fileName = "test.file";

URI logUri = new File(fileName).getAbsoluteFile().toURI();  

BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(new File(logUri))); 

byte[] btemp = new byte[14];
in.read(btemp);

String strtemp = "";

for(int i = 0; i < btemp.length; i+= 2) {
    strtemp += String.valueOf((char)(((btemp[i]&0x00FF)<<8) + (btemp[i+1]&0x00FF)));
}

System.out.println("strTemp: " + strtemp);

How do I get strtemp to be whats in the file? and to display it properly?

Answer 1

As you can see from the Constructor summary of http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html you can initialize a String from bytes directly.

Also you should supply the charset you have in your source file.