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    I have a text file named "abcd.txt"
    It contains data as "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
    '
    So....i need to print the last byte of a file . . that is "z" after program execution'
    I just tried to read file and using seek function, i tried to print...'
    But...it gives error..'
    Plz help me to solve this....'
    Thanx in advance...'
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    Code...
    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
     
    public class last_byte
    {
        public static void main(String args[]) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
        {
                File rcfile=new File("D:/abcd.txt");
                RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(rcfile,"rwd");
                raf.seek(rcfile.length()-1);
                char lb=raf.readChar();
                System.out.print(lb);
        }
     
    }
    '
    Error...
    Exception in thread "main" java.io.EOFException
    	at java.io.RandomAccessFile.readChar(RandomAccessFile.java:747)
    	at data.last_byte.main(last_byte.java:13)
    Java Result: 1
    BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 0 seconds)


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    Default Re: Cannot read last byte of a file...."

    Read the API doc for the class's readChar() method and see if you are using it correctly.
    What does it say it will do?
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    Smile Re: Cannot read last byte of a file...."

    Hi,
    If you print rcfile.length(), It'll show 27, but this is 26 charachters in your abcd.txt file.
    so if you put raf.seek(rcfile.length()-2); the problem will be solved.

    may be there is an End of File charachter in text file that you can not see.

    Note: It is better the class name starts with capital letter, e.g. Last_byte insted of last_byte
    Banafshe

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    Default Re: Cannot read last byte of a file...."

    @Banafshe....Thanx....it solved to some extent...'
    Now, i dont get error...'
    '
    But instead of pronting "z"...it prints "祺"(some chinese character)'
    '
    Output...
    祺
    BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 0 seconds)

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    Default Re: Cannot read last byte of a file...."

    Are you insisting on using RandomAccessFile?
    Why don't you use something else like this?

    In this code, 10 is the last character in file.
    import java.io.*;
     
    public class last_byte
    {
        public static void main(String args[]) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
        {
                File rcfile=new File("abcd.txt");
                InputStream in = new FileInputStream(rcfile);
                Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(in);
     
                int intCh;
                int theLastChar = 10;
     
                while ((intCh = reader.read()) != -1) {
                    char ch = (char) intCh;
                    if (intCh != 10) {
                    	theLastChar = ch;
                    }
                }
                System.out.println((char)theLastChar);
        }
     
    }
    Banafshe

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    Thanxx.....@Banafshe..'
    It worked...'
    Be free to help......n.....being free to help.....'

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    Default Re: Cannot read last byte of a file...."

    If you look at the contents of the file in a hex editor you will see what it contains.
    Most files created with a text editor write out files with one character per byte.
    If you save text in Unicode format (wordpad will do it) it will use two bytes per character.
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