[newToThis]

hi im reading a record that stored a string object
as a byte array

how can i convert from byte array to string..
i tried to do this strategy..

byte[] data = current.getRecord(recordId);

  try
  {
    vfm.add(new LabelField(new String(data, "US-ASCII")));
  }
  catch(java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException ex)
  {
  
  }

i dont know the reason why it's not showing anything.

[newToThis]

nevermind.. i traced the problem to the
approach i was using in storing the bytes.

i used bytearrayoutputstream when a simple
StringObject.getBytes() was enuf to get the byte array.
and convert back to String x = new String(byte[] array);

[ecarmody]

Here is the approach I use to read the recordstore and convert to string. Actually, I convert to fields in a structure, but this example shows just a string.

byte [] data = rs.getRecord(id);
bin = new ByteArrayInputStream(data);
din = new DataInputStream(bin);
String stringData = din.readUTF();

[newToThis]

thank you for the reply ecarmody i will give this
a try. i was wondering how the bytearraystream
can be used to make this work.