157. Read N Characters Given Read4

The API: int read4(char *buf) reads 4 characters at a time from a file.

The return value is the actual number of characters read. For example, it returns 3 if there is only 3 characters left in the file.

By using the read4 API, implement the function int read(char *buf, int n) that reads n characters from the file.

Note:
The read function will only be called once for each test case.

目前最恶心一题，刚开始根本看不懂题，后来看了答案才知道这题要干嘛。他给了read4(char *buf) 函数不知道从哪里的一个文件读取4个字符到数组buf并返回实际读到的字符数。read(char *buf, int n) 函数是要从刚才的那个文件里读n个字符到buf。

这里要考虑你每次调用read4只能读4个字符，如果没读到文件末尾时，肯定每次返回都是4，如果到结尾时，字符数剩余小于4时，返回数值小于4。还要考虑n是不是大于这个文件的总字符大小。

知道这些，就可以看下面的解法了。

/* The read4 API is defined in the parent class Reader4.
      int read4(char[] buf); */

public class Solution extends Reader4 {
    /**
     * @param buf Destination buffer
     * @param n   Maximum number of characters to read
     * @return    The number of characters read
     */
    public int read(char[] buf, int n) {
        char[] buffer = new char[4];
        int endoffile = 0;
        int lenread = 0;
        while (lenread < n && endoffile == 0) {
            int currentread = read4(buffer);
            if (currentread != 4) {
                endoffile = 1;
            }
            int length = Math.min(n - lenread, currentread);
            for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
                buf[lenread + i] = buffer[i]; 
            }
            lenread += length;
        }
        return lenread;
    }
}