Re: How to check two text files have the same content or not?
In article <g9mitg$e2i$1@news.nems.noaa.gov>, www <www@nospam.com>
wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
You can just do something like this:
InputStream a = new BufferedInputStream(newFileInputStream(fileA)) ;
InputStream b = new BufferedInputStream(newFileInputStream(fileB)) ;
int byteA = 0 ;
int byteB = 0 ;
while ((byteA | byteB) >= 0) {
int byteA = a.read() ;
int byteB = b.read() ;
if (byteA != byteB) return false ;
}
return byteA == byteB ;
tom
Thank you. That is interesting. I don't understand the line:
while ((byteA | byteB) >= 0)
Can you explain a little more?
Look at what BufferedInputStream.html#read() returns:
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/BufferedInputStream.html>
Consider, the possible values returned by indicated operator:
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/op3.html>
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