Rubenerd

Messing around with some basic data files here using RandomAccessFile instead of reading in and writing data files sequentially.

import java.io.*;
public class TestRandomAccess {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile("raf","rw");
      raf.writeInt(127);
      raf.writeDouble(2.718281828459045);
      raf.writeChars("Bird Bird Bird, the Bird is the Word");
      System.out.println(raf.length());
      raf.seek(4);
      System.out.println(raf.readDouble());
      System.out.println(raf.getFilePointer());
    }
    catch (Exception e) { System.err.println(e); }
  }
}

What's really cool is exporting a seemingly innocuous double (double length floating point number in Java) then reading back as an integer!

import java.io.*;
public class TestRandomAccess {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile("raf","rw");
      raf.writeDouble(10.0);
      System.out.println(raf.readInt());
    }
    catch (Exception e) { System.err.println(e); }
  }
}

The result: 1076101120. Spiffy!