Hi Matt, Matt Culbreth <mattculbr...@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm using slurp to read data from a file and send it to a stream, but > sometimes that's failing. I've got a theory that it has to do with > slurp not reading binary data correctly. Is that true? Do I need to > go down to the lower level Java classes and build a byte array using > InputFileStream and .read()? Yep, you're spot on. The problem is that slurp reads data as characters, not bytes, so they'll likely be interpreted as UTF-8 (depends on your locale settings unless you set it explicitly) which will mess them up if they're not actually UTF-8 characters. You should indeed use byte arrays or DataInputStream or ByteBuffer or similar (depending on what sort of manipulation you need to do) rather than strings when working with non-textual data. Note that c.c.duck-streams (now known as c.c.io) 'copy multimethod when given streams or byte arrays (not reader, writers or strings) will do the right thing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
