Ok great, thanks guys. Exactly what I needed. On Apr 30, 12:12 am, Alex Osborne <a...@meshy.org> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > Matt Culbreth <mattculbr...@gmail.com> writes: > > I'm using slurp to read data from a file and send it to a stream, but > > sometimes that's failing. I've got a theory that it has to do with > > slurp not reading binary data correctly. Is that true? Do I need to > > go down to the lower level Java classes and build a byte array using > > InputFileStream and .read()? > > Yep, you're spot on. The problem is that slurp reads data as > characters, not bytes, so they'll likely be interpreted as UTF-8 > (depends on your locale settings unless you set it explicitly) which > will mess them up if they're not actually UTF-8 characters. > > You should indeed use byte arrays or DataInputStream or ByteBuffer or > similar (depending on what sort of manipulation you need to do) rather > than strings when working with non-textual data. Note that > c.c.duck-streams (now known as c.c.io) 'copy multimethod when given > streams or byte arrays (not reader, writers or strings) will do the > right thing. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
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