Can I read in more than a byte at a time into InputStream ?

[UncleScooby]

I want to read in a whole web page so I can search for some product prices matches.

At the moment I am using the .read method from the InputStream class but this only reads in a byte at a time.

Is there a better/quicker way to read in all the page so I can then use some string manipulation to locate the product prices I am interested in.

Any info appreciated.

US.

 

[Diancecht]

The read() method of InputStream can read more than one byte at a time. Take a look at the API.

Anyway, I'd user a BufferedInputStream.

Cheers,

Dian

 

[sedj]

I take it that you are using the HttpUrlConnection class to download the web page.
This class has a method getContentLength() - so then you can use :

HttpUrlConnection huc ...
int len = huc.getContentLength();
byte[] data = new byte[len];
if (len > 0) {
  DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(huc.getInputStream());
  dis.readFully(data);
  dis.close();
}

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