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SetSlapShot
SetSlapShot

Reputation: 70

Constructing a sequence of bits in java

I'm having trouble getting a bit to work properly in java6...I'm trying to write a compression program that will write bits to a compressed file...so for example a common letter such as "e" might just be the binary sequence "101" in ascii

I think the fileOutputStream.write(int) method is what I'm going to want to accomplish this, but how to I represent a sequence of bits as in int?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1764

Answers (2)

Peter Lawrey
Peter Lawrey

Reputation: 533500

101 is the ascii value for 'e'

All you have to is write it

FileOutputStream fos =
fos.write('e'); // writes 101 which is the ascii for 'e'

Upvotes: 0

MByD
MByD

Reputation: 137322

You can use BitSet. And then write a full byte array using FileOutputStream#write(byte\[\]) like that:

fileOutputStream.write(myBitSet.toByteArray());

Upvotes: 3

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