writing/reading ASCII file with CR

I have to create a file (and later read in one which follows also the following restrictions) with the following coding:

"The files defined in this document should be sent using the ASCII character set.Within segments the pipe character is used as the delimited (value &7C).Each record is terminated by a Carriage Return character (value &0D). "

I do it like:

byte pipe[] = new byte [] { (byte) 124}

byte cr[] = new byte [] { (byte) 13 }

String pipeString = new String( pipe, 0, 1, "UTF-8")

String crString = new String( cr, 0, 1, "UTF-8")

and e.g. the crString into the file after every record.

Does that look allright to you?

The input to my file comes from another file that I read in

which holds german umlaute(?

This is why write it with the UTF-8 encoding.

Is that good enough or do I have to look for every umlaut in my input file and then change it using something like

byte A_Umlaut[] = new byte [] { (byte) 196 }

to follow ASCII convension?

Eventually I will get back a file which uses the same encoding.

I would love to read it in record after record.

Obviously I cannot read it (with any Java Reader) using readLine()

as it doesn't hold the linefeed character, correct?

Do I have to read it byte by byte looking for the cr?

What would be the best way for that (the file will be very big)?

Thanks,

Richy

[1463 byte] By [brichya] at [2007-10-2 7:33:09]