Re: pack it in
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:06:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pack it in | ||
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On Thu, January 24, 2008 5:20 pm, Jochem Maas wrote:
> someone asked about checksum values in another thread, I believe
> he got his answer no thanks to me. but whilst I was trying to help
> I got stuck playing with pack/unpack.
>
> so now I have the broadbrush question of what would one use
> pack/unpack for? can anyone point at some realworld examples/code that
> might help me broaden my horizons?
Reading a "binary" file with various bytes/bits that need to get
converted to integers for you to do something useful with them.
Ditty for writing said file.
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