Reading Strings and Binary from the same FileInputStream

Question

I have a file that contains some amount of plain text at the start followed by binary content at the end. The size of the binary content is determined by some one of the pla

Answer 1

I recommend using DataInputStream. You have the following options:

• Read both text and binary content with DataInputStream
• Open a BufferedReader, read text and close the stream. Then open a DataInputStream, skip bytes equal to the size of the text and read binary data.