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August 3, 2010
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Character strings with no end-of-string asciicharacter

  • August 3, 2010
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Easier, but then the rest of us wouldn't learn from it... 😄

Steve Thompson
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    bibach1-Visitor
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    August 3, 2010
    Andy,

    I'm not entirely certain which template string you should use for each
    of the cases you mention.  Which ones have you tried and what was the
    result?  As for the "unused byte", do you mean a byte of data that
    doesn't need to be written to the file, a byte in the file that
    doesn't come from any data in your application or some other meaning?

    I have never attempted to do anything like what you're doing.  My
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    documentation and experimenting.  Having given you some pointers in
    the right direction, I sincerely hope that you have done the same to
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    problem.

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    On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Andy Leslie
    <info@structuredinformation.co.uk> wrote:
    > Hi Brendon,
    >
    > I need to convert to Big Endian 16bit unsigned integer.
    > Is this pack("n*", buf) ? or should I use S* ? The value could be 64
    >
    > I also need to convert to Big Endian 32bit unsigned integer.
    > Is this pack("N*",buf) ? Value could be 0, 1 or  2.
    >
    > Furthermore, how do I specify an unused byte ?
    >
    > Many Thanks,
    >
    > What is your email address ? - be easier than working through the forum.
    >
    > Many Thanks
    >
    > Andy
    >
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