DataInputStream skipBytes(int) in Java

skipBytes(int): This method is available in the java.io.DataInputStream class of Java.

Syntax:

int java.io.DataInputStream.skipBytes(int n) throws IOException

This method sees the general contract of the skipBytesmethod of DataInput. Bytes for this operation are read from the contained input stream.

Parameters: One parameter is required for this method.

n: the number of bytes to be skipped.

Returns: the actual number of bytes skipped.

Throws:

1. IOException - if the contained input stream does not support seek, or the stream has been closed and the contained input stream does not support reading after close, or another I/O error occurs.

Approach

Java

import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

public class DataInputStreamskipBytes {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

        InputStream in = new FileInputStream("hello.txt");
        DataInputStream dataInputStream = 
                        new DataInputStream(in);

        int n = 2;

        System.out.println(dataInputStream.skipBytes(n));
        dataInputStream.close();
    }
}

Output:

2