Which is the right class to use dealing with binary data files?
j g
jimg1968 at yahoo.com.cn
Sun Oct 10 14:20:48 UTC 2004
Thank you Bert. I'll try it out.
(And who knows why yahoo always adds an empty attachment to my mail to the list? It's strange.)
Bert Freudenberg <bert at impara.de> wrote:
Am 10.10.2004 um 09:23 schrieb j g:
> I want to read from data files created by my stock software, and I
> know it's in binary mode. Exactly, it's written by some C function as
> Long or Int32.
> Can't find a suitable filestream class to deal with it. For example I
> need a nextLong/nextInt32, nextLongPut:, etc.
Just use the standard file stream. Binary reading is implemented in
PositionableStream, which is a superclass of all file streams.
You need to be careful about endianness, of course.
- Bert -
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