I want to type a multiple line text into the console using a BufferedReader and when I hit "Enter" to find the sum of the length of the whole text. The problem is that it seems I'm getting into an ...

I want to send a command to a server, and find out if I get a response. Right now i am using BufferedReader's readline() function, which blocks until there's a response from server, but all I want...

The InputStream is passed as a parameter from somewhere, where it will be further processed and then closed. So I don't want to close the InputStream here. Consider the following code: void readIn...

I am studying Android development (I'm a beginner in programming in general) and learning about HTTP networking and saw this code in the lesson: private String readFromStream(InputStream inputStre...

What is the difference between Java's BufferedReader and InputStreamReader classes?

I am reading data from a file that has, unfortunately, two types of character encoding. There is a header and a body. The header is always in ASCII and defines the character set that the body is e...

As I tentatively understand it at the moment: DataInputStream is an InputStream subclass, hence it reads and writes bytes. If you are reading bytes and you know they are all going to be ints or so...

I want to ping a target IP address and receive a response. To achieve this, I'm using windows command line in Java with runtime.exec method and process class. I'm getting the response using inputSt...

I have 8 files. Each one of them is about 1.7 GB. I'm reading those files into a byte array and that operation is fast enough. Each file is then read as follow: BufferedReader br=new BufferedRead...

I have a method for my app to read a random line from a text file and return it. Im using the randTxt() to read and return a random line from the txt file. but it only shows the same line (1st line...

I have some bytes which should be UTF-8 encoded, but which may contain a text is ISO8859-1 encoding, if the user somehow didn't manage to use his text editor the right way. I read the file with an...

This piece of code is creating memory leak issues cause of BufferedReader and InputStreamReader which I think might be happening cause of some exceptions. How should I change it? try{ URL url = ...

I am reading in from a stream using a BufferedReader and InputStreamReader to create one long string that gets created from the readers. It gets up to over 100,000 lines and then throws a 500 error...

I am trying to read data from a binary stream, portions of which should be parsed as UTF-8. Using the InputStream directly for the binary data and an InputStreamReader on top of it for the U...

I have some CLOB columns in a database that I need to put Base64 encoded binary files in. These files can be large, so I need to stream them, I can't read the whole thing in at once. I'm using org...