What text format are your .sum files using? Sounds like it may be UTF8.
Try this:
/**
* Returns the String contents of a UTF8 file.
*
* This method throws any fileIO errors.
*
* @param sFileName Full file path.
* @return String The contents of the file as a String object.
* @throws Exception Any fileIO errors
*/
public static String getUTF8FileAsString(String sFileName) throws
Exception {
RandomAccessFile inputFile = new
RandomAccessFile(sFileName,"r");
String output = inputFile.readUTF();
inputFile.close();
return output;
}
This method should work if your files are in ASCII:
/**
* Returns the String contents of an ASCII file.
*
* This method throws any fileIO errors.
*
* @param sFileName Full file path.
* @return String The contents of the file as a String object.
* @throws Exception Any fileIO errors
*/
public static String getFileAsString(String sFileName) throws
Exception {
RandomAccessFile inputFile = new
RandomAccessFile(sFileName,"r");
byte[] inputbytes = new byte[(int)inputFile.length()];
int numread = inputFile.read(inputbytes);
inputFile.close();
return new String(inputbytes);
}
--- Micael Padraig Og mac Grene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 08:14 AM 12/10/01 +0200, you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Thanks for all the responses(including the debate) to this question!
> It made
> >some real interesting reading material after the SHORT weekend! To
> get back
> >to August's suggestion: we've tried it but our problem is that the
> file
> >content is generated by a VB program and
> >contains some funny characters e.g. "CPI" rather than "CPI". When we
> >translate these to a string it either comes out as ?CPI? or as
> illustrated
> >in the attached image(This is also how
> >it displays in JBuilder).
> >
> >Regarding the debate I tend to agree with Jeff. If you want to
> display the
> >pure contents of a file you should be able to include the file using
> ><jsp:include> without having to define a mime type. I mean what
> happens if
> >you want to include a "code" example, for example a code snippet
> that
> >illustrates how to code something in C,C++,Java etc. If you define
> the mime
> >type it will try to translate it, which is not what we want in this
> case...
> >You could define it as type text but now you need to maintain two
> mime types
> >for one extension? Just doesn't sound right to me. The other thing
> that
> >bothers me is the fact that it works for the <%@ include...%>
> directive but
> >not for the <jsp:include.../> surely they should perform similar
> actions
> >simply using a different syntax?
> >
> >Thanks again,
> >Jonathan
>
> I still don't see, Jonathan, why you don't just use code in your
> include
> which catches the mime types and deals with them? Why is the include
>
> important to you in the first instance? I think the people in this
> list
> might be able to help you, if we knew what the facets of the problem
> are. This sounds like a problem that can be solved, but I am not
> sure what
> the situation is.
>
> Micael
>
>
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