Reading Binary Data in Little Endian Format

[Dave]

Hi Mark,

Thanks a bunch! I was just playing binaryEncode/Decode when you mail  
popped up. I've downloaded the stack. One quick question though. In  
the Initialization you set the the endian flag, is this is based on  
the type of system you are running on? e.g. (Big or Little Endian?).  
If so is this because of the bug you mentioned in the readme file?

  Thanks again and All the Best
Dave

On 8 Jan 2008, at 11:34, Mark Smith wrote:

> Dave, you can download a small library I wrote for exactly this  
> sort of thing:
> go to  http://www.futility.co.uk/futsoft/revolutionstuff.html
>
> and download libBinConvert.
>
> If you don't want to have to use yet another library, you can just  
> copy the appropriate function ( getIntLE() or getUIntLE() ) out of  
> the library.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> On 8 Jan 2008, at 11:19, Dave wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've tried a few things, such as:
>>
>> put empty into myData
>> repeat 4 times
>> read from file myFile for 1 char
>> put it before myData
>> end repeat
>>
>> But this doesn't work - just returns 0.
>>
>> Not sure how to go about this in RunRev, although in C it was be  
>> sooooooooooooooooooooo simple!
>>
>> All the Best
>> Dave
>>
>> On 8 Jan 2008, at 11:13, Mark Schonewille wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> You need to write a function to revert the numbers manually. I'd  
>>> say that's an easy task to do.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Mark Schonewille
>>>
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>>> Op 8-jan-2008, om 12:08 heeft Dave het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>> Happy New Year to All!
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of an easy way to read a 4 bytes (32 bit)  
>>>> little endian number from a file?
>>>>
>>>> I am running on a Mac and the file I am trying to process  
>>>> *always* is stored in Little Endian Format, for instance:
>>>>
>>>> The number 0x00000000BC   (188) is stored in the file as:
>>>>
>>>> 0xBC000000 (a VERY large number!)
>>>>
>>>> I want to get 188 when I read these four bytes.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas???
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot
>>>> All the Best
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
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