Java.io.RandomAccessFile.writeShort() Method

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Description

The java.io.RandomAccessFile.writeShort(int v) method writes a short to the file as two bytes, high byte first. The write starts at the current position of the file pointer.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.io.RandomAccessFile.writeShort() method.

public final void writeShort(int v)

Parameters

v − a short value to be written.

Return Value

This method does not return a value.

Exception

IOException − If an I/O error occurs.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.io.RandomAccessFile.writeShort() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.io.*;

public class RandomAccessFileDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      try {
         short s = 15;

         // create a new RandomAccessFile with filename test
         RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile("c:/test.txt", "rw");

         // write a short in the file
         raf.writeShort(s);

         // set the file pointer at 0 position
         raf.seek(0);

         // read short
         System.out.println("" + raf.readShort());

         // set the file pointer at 0 position
         raf.seek(0);

         // write a short at the start
         raf.writeShort(20);

         // set the file pointer at 0 position
         raf.seek(0);

         // read short
         System.out.println("" + raf.readShort());
         
      } catch (IOException ex) {
         ex.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}

Assuming we have a text file c:/test.txt, which has the following content. This file will be used as an input for our example program −

ABCDE  

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

15
20