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Thread: Writing data to binary file.

  1. November 16th, 2012, 06:51 AM #1
    MateuszS
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    Default Writing data to binary file.

    Hello.
    I am a begginer in programming with Java. I have to write a simple program which can compress a .txt file (for example dictionary).
    Steps:
    - loading dictionary to memory (done)
    - building Huffman's tree (done)
    - writing it to .bin file (here is a problem)

    When I try to write my String (for example "011011") to .bin I have much bigger file than .txt, I have to convert it to binary type and save bit after bit but I have no idea how to do that. What should I do first? I have string and I have to save it to a .bin file. Maybe could anyone write a function which may do that?

    prototype of function:
    public void saveToBin(String txt)
{
 
}
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  3. November 16th, 2012, 10:18 AM #2
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    Default Re: Writing data to binary file.

    No one will write the method for you, but we can direct you to the correct place.
    I'm not 100% sure, but I would say that you need to use a Byte Stream. Here is a brief tutorial that you should find helpful: Byte Streams (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential Classes > Basic I/O)
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