Convert 4 bytes to int
- by Oscar Reyes
I'm reading a binary file like this:
InputStream in = new FileInputStream( file );
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
while( ( in.read(buffer ) > -1 ) {
int a = // ???
}
What I want to do it to read up to 4 bytes and create a int value from those but, I don't know how to do it.
I kind of feel like I have to grab 4 bytes at a time, and perform one "byte" operation ( like << & FF and stuff like that ) to create the new int
What's the idiom for this?
EDIT
Ooops this turn out to be a bit more complex ( to explain )
What I'm trying to do is, read a file ( may be ascii, binary, it doesn't matter ) and extract the integers it may have.
For instance suppose the binary content ( in base 2 ) :
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000010
The integer representation should be 1 , 2 right? :- / 1 for the first 32 bits, and 2 for the remaining 32 bits.
11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111
Would be -1
and
01111111 11111111 11111111 11111111
Would be Integer.MAX_VALUE ( 2147483647 )
