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Konstantin,
On 12/22/13, 8:54 AM, Konstantin Preißer wrote:
> Note that the reason for a EOFException is slightly different than
> just reading from a stream when there is no more data present.
>
> In Java (and .Net), when you read from a Stream which is finished
> (there is no more data present), read() returns -1. Even when you
> repeatedly call read(), you will still get -1, but no exception.
> Normally you do just while ((read = input.read(buffer)) > 0) {
> ...} to test for the end of stream/data.
It's important to note for beginners that you want the comparison
operator to be ">=" and not just ">". If you use "0" than you run the
risk of attempting to read from a stream that has stalled and getting
zero bytes (and stopping) when there may future bytes on the stream.
- -chris
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