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Angus:

You're probably getting a "big indian, little indian" issue here. 
When I was reading ints from a binary file I had to remember to
bitshift them because they're different in Java (to get around the
lack of a "signed" keyword).

-Rich

angus m. fraser wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This might be just me not understanding Java properly but...
> 
> I'm reading shorts out of a binary file using something like this.
> 
> try {
>   File f = new File("c:\\pc-cora\\archive\\98040111.edt");
>   RandomAccessFile r  = new RandomAccessFile(f, "r");
>   r.seek(82);
>   short s = r.readShort();
>   ...
>   }
> 
> The problem is this is that 'short s' is giving the wrong answer. I've
> checked the 2 bytes being read(using readByte) and they are correct.
> 
> It seems the conversion from 2 chars/bytes to a short(in
> RandomAccessFile.readShort() ) is wrong, at least compared to the
> short(smallint) value properly returned by Delphi.
> 
> Anyone shed any light on this?
> 
> --
> Angus Fraser
> afraser@cix.co.uk

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