Thread: Writing into ViewBuffers!! need help

I am using a viewbuffer here to copy the string to a file.

When i copy the string to a byte array and write to a view buffer i get the following error :


WritingFiles.java:65: cannot find symbol
symbol : method put(byte[])
location: class java.nio.CharBuffer
cbuf.put(bytes);

public class WritingFiles {
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
 
 
    File afile = new File("E:/java/samples/testing/proverbs.txt");
 
String[] sayings = {		" Indecision maximises flexibility ",
    					" Only the mediocre are always at their best "
                          };
 
FileOutputStream outStream = null;
 
    try
    {
    	outStream = new FileOutputStream (afile,true);
    }catch (FileNotFoundException e)
    {
    	e.printStackTrace(System.err);
    	System.exit(1);
    }
 
    FileChannel outChannel = outStream.getChannel();
 
    int maxlength = 0;
    for ( String saying : sayings )
    	if ( maxlength < saying.length())
     		maxlength = saying.length();
 
    ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocate(2*maxlength+4);
 
   try
    {
    	for(String saying : sayings)
    	{
            buf.putInt(saying.length());
            CharBuffer cbuf = buf.asCharBuffer();
            byte[] bytes = saying.getBytes();
            cbuf.put(bytes);
            buf.position(buf.position()+2*saying.length()).flip();
    	    outChannel.write(buf);
    	    buf.clear();
          }
       }
 
    outStream.close();
    	System.out.println("Proverbs written to file");
 
    }catch(IOException e)
    {
    	e.printStackTrace(System.err);
    	System.exit(1);
    }
 
    System.exit(0);
 
    }
}

WritingFiles.java:65: cannot find symbol
symbol : method put(byte[])
location: class java.nio.CharBuffer
cbuf.put(bytes);

See the java doc for CharBuffer. put() doesn't take any byte[] parameter.

Thanks buddy