EBCDIC to ASCII conversion when reading spooled files

["Mike Silvers" <msilvers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an application where I am reading a spooled file.  When I read the
spooled file, there is a problem with the conversion from EBCDIC to ASCII.
The problem is that there are some characters at the beginning that I do not
know why they are there.  Right now, I delete these characters manually.
The characters are in the first 23 positions.  Does anyone know of a better
way (i.e.: is there a method in a class that will take care of this)?

The way I complete the conversion is to set the system property as follows:

        System.setProperty("file.encoding", "Cp037");

I then read the spooled file and print it out to the stdout on the PC.  I
will be processing the lines later, but for now I am only writing it to the
stdout.  The method to read and write the is as follows:

    public void printSpooledFile() {
        InputStreamReader isr = new
InputStreamReader(this.getSpooledFileBufferedInputStream());
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
        String readline;

        try {
            while ( (readline = br.readLine()) != null) {
                String printline = null;
                // delete characters in the beginning
                if (readline.length() > 22) {
                    printline = readline.substring(22, readline.length());
                } else {
                    printline = readline;
                }
                System.out.println("Line: " + printline);
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
        }

    }

Thanks!!

Mike


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Mike Silvers
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