Removing all empty elements from an character array

Question

I have a character array that can hold maximum 50000 characters at a time. Contents of this array are coming through socket connections. However it is not guaranteed that th

Answer 1

Correct way to read from an InputStream in a buffer is as follows.

public String readBufferUpdate() throws IOException {
    char[] buffer =new char[50000];
    int bytesRead = is.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length);
    return new String(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
}

Here you is.read() returns how many bytes have been read into bytesRead. Only that many bytes are copied from the buffer to String.