Skips over and discards n bytes of data from this input
stream. The skip method may, for a variety of reasons, end
up skipping over some smaller number of bytes, possibly 0.
This may result from any of a number of conditions; reaching end of file
before n bytes have been skipped is only one possibility.
The actual number of bytes skipped is returned. If n is
negative, no bytes are skipped.
The skip method of this class creates a
byte array and then repeatedly reads into it until n bytes
have been read or the end of the stream has been reached. Subclasses are
encouraged to provide a more efficient implementation of this method.
For instance, the implementation may depend on the ability to seek.
n | the number of bytes to be skipped. |
IOException | if the stream does not support seek, or if some other I/O error occurs. |
Diagram: InputStream