what is the different between byte stream and character stream?

[dolphin]

Hi !what is the different between byte stream and character stream?

 

[Joshua Cranmer]

Hi !what is the different between byte stream and character stream?

Read the javadocs for java.io.InputStream, java.io.Reader, and probably
the package for java.io as well.

 

[Thomas Kellerer]

dolphin wrote on 17.03.2007 14:37:

Hi !what is the different between byte stream and character stream?

A byte stream is for bytes (raw data) and a character stream is for character
data. As simple as that.

Your questions seems to indicate that you think a byte and a character is the
same. It is not.

 

[Lew]

dolphin wrote on 17.03.2007 14:37:
A byte stream is for bytes (raw data) and a character stream is for character
data. As simple as that.

Your questions seems to indicate that you think a byte and a character is the
same. It is not.

There is also Object{Input|Output}Stream which is for Objects, ...

When you get into java.nio you have Buffer and its type-specific descendants.

-- Lew

 

[Mark Space]

Hi !what is the different between byte stream and character stream?

A byte stream is just that -- raw bytes.

A character stream is for a given character set. It could be fixed
width characters (one or two bytes) or some form of variable width like
UTF-8. I think Java uses variable width internally, but it has readers
for many different character streams built into the IO subsystem.

 

[alireza.jn]

Hi !what is the different between byte stream and character stream?

 

[Thomas Fritsch]

dolphin wrote on 17.03.2007 14:37:


A byte stream is for bytes (raw data) and a character stream is for character
data. As simple as that.

Your questions seems to indicate that you think a byte and a character is the
same. It is not.

Additional note to the OP:
a byte is of range [-128...127], a character is of range [0...65535].