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Re: Best way to do simple binary file I/O?



I don't see why that code wouldn't work, as objective-c is a variation of the c language and can use of all of it's standard libraries.

That said its not a very good idea, because storing the raw representation from memory will cause incompatibilty across architechtures, as well as with cocoa data types.

Omar Qazi
Synergick Software
1.310.294.1593

On Dec 28, 2007, at 7:23 PM, William Squires <email@hidden> wrote:

In C, I would just define a struct

typedef struct _mytype {
 /* field definitions */
 } MyType, *MyTypePtr;

then, in code somewhere...

...
FILE *fp;
int i;

...
fp = fopen(<filename>, "rb");
i = fread(fp, sizeof(MyType), 1);
while (<some condition based on what was read in>)
 {
 /* Process one record... */
 ...

 /* Read another */
 i = fread(fp, sizeof(MyType), 1);
 }
fclose(fp);
...

What's the ObjC (OO) recommended methodology for this now? (for just a Core Foundation tool)

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