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RandomAccessFile.ReadUTF Method

Definition

Reads in a string from this file.

[Android.Runtime.Register("readUTF", "()Ljava/lang/String;", "")]
public string? ReadUTF ();
[<Android.Runtime.Register("readUTF", "()Ljava/lang/String;", "")>]
abstract member ReadUTF : unit -> string
override this.ReadUTF : unit -> string

Returns

a Unicode string.

Implements

Attributes

Exceptions

if the end of this file is detected.

if this file is closed or another I/O error occurs.

if the bytes read cannot be decoded into a character string.

Remarks

Reads in a string from this file. The string has been encoded using a modified UTF-8 format.

The first two bytes are read, starting from the current file pointer, as if by readUnsignedShort. This value gives the number of following bytes that are in the encoded string, not the length of the resulting string. The following bytes are then interpreted as bytes encoding characters in the modified UTF-8 format and are converted into characters.

This method blocks until all the bytes are read, the end of the stream is detected, or an exception is thrown.

Java documentation for java.io.RandomAccessFile.readUTF().

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