A Java CharBuffer doesn’t behave the way I would expect.
CharBuffer buf = CharBuffer.allocate(8).put("foo");
System.out.println( "'" + buf + "'" );
yields
'^@^@^@^@^@'
or
'
This is because a CharBuffer is not a StringBuffer: toString() gives you everything from the current “position” to the end of the buffer. I.e., what you haven’t written yet. (Those funny symbols, or the lack thereof, are nulls.) Instead you want
CharBuffer buf = CharBuffer.allocate(8).put("foo");
System.out.println( "'" + buf.flip() + "'" );
which yields
'foo'
flip() makes the current view of the buffer what has been written to it so far.
P.S. Why can’t flip() return a CharBuffer, so that
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