Java tutorial
import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.ObjectInputStream; import java.io.ObjectOutputStream; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String s = "Hello World from java2s.com"; FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("test.txt"); ObjectOutputStream oout = new ObjectOutputStream(out); // write something in the file oout.writeUTF(s); oout.flush(); oout.close(); // create an ObjectInputStream for the file we created before ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream("test.txt")); // read and print from index 0 to 7 byte[] b = new byte[13]; ois.readFully(b, 0, 7); String array = new String(b); System.out.println(array); ois.close(); } }