Re: Writing binary data

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On May 11, 2006, at 12:21, Stockdale, Daire, SOE wrote:

> Is there any way to write to file the binary representation of a
> lua_Number without using a custom module?

Well, what's wrong with an external module? :)

For example, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo has a nice, tidy library just 
for that purpose:

"lpack — A library for packing and unpacking binary data."

"pack is called as follows: pack(F,x1,x2,...), where F is a string 
describing
how the values x1, x2, ... are to be interpreted and formatted. Each 
letter
in the format string F consumes one of the given values. Only values of 
type
number or string are accepted. pack returns a (binary) string 
containing the
values packed as described in F. The letter codes understood by pack 
are listed
in lpack.c (they are inspired by Perl's codes but are not the same). 
Numbers
following letter codes in F indicate repetitions."

http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lpack

Cheers

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