readUTF.Java {R.utils}R Documentation

Reads a Java (UTF-8) formatted string from a connection

Description

Reads a Java (UTF-8) formatted string from a connection.

Usage

Java$readUTF(con, as.character=TRUE, ...)

Arguments

con Binary connection to be read from.
as.character If TRUE, the read string converted, i.e. translated, into an R character string before returned, otherwise an integer vector representation of the Unicode string is returned.
... Not used.

Details

Currently only 8-bit UTF-8 byte sequences are supported, i.e. plain ASCII sequences, i.e. characters that take up more than one byte are read incorrectly without any warnings.

Value

Returns a character string or an integer vector.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

See Also

readBin(). For more information see Java.


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