are these two equivalent? How do I convert a byte[] to char[] in java? Or better put use a char[] in place of a byte[]. I am using String.toBytes("UTF-8") to convert a string to byte array. I was told ...

I'm trying to read some data from a file that's bit-aligned rather than byte-aligned. Right now I'm reading the data in one long at a time, then using bitwise operations to get the bits I want from ...