Method readUTF

vm/JavaAPI/src/java/io/DataInput.java:114–114

Reads in a string that has been encoded using a modified UTF-8 format. The general contract of readUTF is that it reads a representation of a Unicode character string encoded in Java modified UTF-8 format; this string of characters is then returned as a String. First, two bytes are read and used to

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     * The writeUTF method of interface DataOutput may be used to write data that is suitable for reading by this method.
     */
    public abstract java.lang.String readUTF() throws java.io.IOException;

    /**
     * Makes an attempt to skip over n bytes of data from the input stream, discarding the skipped bytes. However, it may skip over some smaller number of bytes, possibly zero. This may result from any of a number of conditions; reaching end of file before n bytes have been skipped is only one possibility. This method never throws an EOFException. The actual number of bytes skipped is returned.