1. What class and method would you use to read a few pieces of data that are at known positions near the end of a large file?
2. When invoking format
, what is the best way to indicate
a new line?
3. How would you determine the MIME type of a file?
4. What method(s) would you use to determine whether a file is a symbolic link?
1. Write an example that counts the number of times a particular
character, such as e
, appears in a file.
The character can be specified at the command line. You can use
xanadu.txt
as the input file.
2. The file
datafile
begins with a single long
that tells you the offset
of a single int
piece of data within the same file.
Write a program that gets the int
piece of data.
What is the int
data?