Re: enhance fh:read?

[Björn De Meyer <bjorn.demeyer@...>]

Markus Huber wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to enhance fh:read() in Lua-Code itself?
> 
> Now I use this:
> 
> Word= string.byte(Filehandle:read(1))*256
>      +string.byte(Filehandle:read(1))
> 
> But I would prefer this way:
> 
> Word=Filehandle:read('w')
> 
> (Please no discussion about Word 16 or 32 bit ;-)

I guess that that would be unportable. 
On a big endian architecture, or reading from a file 
that is big-endian, I think you'll have to 
say 

Word= string.byte(Filehandle:read(1))
     +string.byte(Filehandle:read(1))*256

Lua uses only ANSI C, so it cannot know anything about 
endianness.


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Björn De Meyer 
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