| Current Forum: Homework 4 - Huffman Trees (Part 1) |
| Date: Mon Oct 8 2001 11:30 pm |
| Author: Cipriani, Jason A. <jac4@andrew.cmu.edu> |
| Subject: Re: general clarification on FileBitReader/Writer classes |
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well, readByte() almost gets the ascii character value...
unfortunately it does not, due to a very poor choice of having the return value be "byte" (-128 to 127, or something like that).
whoever wrote that, bad call on using "byte".
the workaround is:
byte theByte = input.readByte();
if (theByte < 0) theByte += 256;
jason |
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