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jcm
jcm

Reputation: 5659

Parsing a torrent file

I'm trying to read in a .torrent file with the following code:

val source = scala.io.Source.fromFile(filename, "utf-8")
val lines = source.mkString
source.close()

But when I run my program I get the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1

I have tried putting no charset and get the same issue.

What is the problem and what should the charset be for reading a .torrent file?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1394

Answers (1)

om-nom-nom
om-nom-nom

Reputation: 62835

Torrent file is not plain text file, but rather has binary structure. Use appropriate library to decode them

Upvotes: 2

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