R.utils (version 2.3.0)

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

Description

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

Usage

## Static method (use this):
## Java$readUTF(con, as.character=TRUE, ...)
## Don't use the below:
"readUTF"(static, 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.

Value

Returns a character string or an integer vector.

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.

See Also

readBin(). For more information see Java.