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I am writing a program that reads a simple text file.   I have created a
loop that reads the file as a byte stream.  Shown below is a code fragment
from the program:

try {
          while (ZipCodeFile.read(StateAbbrv) != -1) {
              String s = new String(StateAbbrv,0);
              ZipCodeFile.read();
              ZipCodeFile.read(ZipCodeRangeLow);
              ZipStringLow = new String(ZipCodeRangeLow,0);
              Low = Low.decode(ZipStringLow);
              ZipCodeLow = Low.intValue() * 100;
...

I have a couple of questions.  First, can I keep allocating the String
variable s new each time?  If not what would be a recommended approach.
Second,  I use a String constructor to convert the byte array into a String.
Reading the help, it says this function does not work and will not be
supported in later releases.  Any suggestions on how I can recode this
expression?  Thank you.

David

dgordon@microdsi.com