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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: offsets in a FileChannel ...
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:22:58 +0100
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On 23.02.2013 15:54, qwertmonkey@syberianoutpost.ru wrote:
>> ... You would have to create more complex code if you want to align char
> position and byte position.
> ~
>   but then why do they have a:
> ~
>   docs/api/java/nio/channels/FileChannel.html#position()
> ~
>   in the API? How/What is it used for?

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/channels/FileChannel.html#position()

> ~
>   If you read the FileChannel.position() as you read off the chars from the
> CharBuffer you always get 0 (as if the offset pointer in the underlying
> FileChannel would not advance)

Probably because you are not reading through the channel but mapping the 
file into memory.

Please stop ripping your posting threads apart.  Thank you.

	robert

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