String expected = begin + end;
    assertEquals(expected.charAt(0), joinedReader.read());
    CharStreams.skipFully(joinedReader, 1);
    assertEquals(expected.charAt(2), joinedReader.read());
    CharStreams.skipFully(joinedReader, 4);
    assertEquals(expected.charAt(7), joinedReader.read());
    CharStreams.skipFully(joinedReader, 1);
    assertEquals(expected.charAt(9), joinedReader.read());

import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.nio.Buffer;
import java.nio.CharBuffer;
import java.util.Random;
import org.jspecify.annotations.NullUnmarked;

/**
 * Benchmarks for {@link CharStreams#copy}.
 *
 * <p>{@link CharStreams#copy} has type specific optimizations for various common Appendable and
 * Reader implementations, this compares the performance of the different options.
 */

      String read(ByteSource byteSource, Charset cs) throws IOException {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        try (InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(byteSource.openStream(), cs)) {
          CharStreams.copy(reader, sb);
        }
        return sb.toString();
      }
    },
    // It really seems like this should be faster than TO_BYTE_ARRAY_NEW_STRING.  But it just isn't

 * the License.
 */

package com.google.common.io;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
import static com.google.common.io.CharStreams.createBuffer;

import com.google.common.annotations.GwtIncompatible;
import com.google.common.annotations.J2ktIncompatible;
import com.google.errorprone.annotations.CanIgnoreReturnValue;
import java.io.IOException;

   *     this sink
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  public long writeFrom(Readable readable) throws IOException {
    checkNotNull(readable);

    try (Writer out = openStream()) {
      return CharStreams.copy(readable, out);
    }
  }