moving the index to different location of binary file.

Question

hello guys,

  i have a map file which has several tile images in the form of binary data. now i have to jump my index to different location of the file and read that tile. but i could not find anything helpful for me i also checked mark() and skip() methods.but not helping me.

is there any method or class which can do what exactly i want or any hint you want to give me

thanks alot

Answer 1

RandomAccessFile may be helpful to you. Here is how to use them.

Random access files permit nonsequential, or random, access to a file's contents. To access a file randomly, you open the file, seek a particular location, and read from or write to that file.