Re: Problem with reading 4-byte floats from file on Intel
Re: Problem with reading 4-byte floats from file on Intel
- Subject: Re: Problem with reading 4-byte floats from file on Intel
- From: jj <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:57:02 +0100
- Thread-topic: Problem with reading 4-byte floats from file on Intel
Well, you could swap bytes before attempting to read (if that is the real
issue)... But noone of the methods I know may be faster than your C tool...
jj
* BTW, I never read a specific binary file known to contain numbers. I used
in my test a random text file, but I guess it's the same: it will just read
double-bytes and interpret them as small reals.
>
> Hello jj,
>
> I was reporting my experiences with Mac OS X 10.4, not 10.5. But it is
> good to know that my future testing with 10.5 would also fail.
>
> Having found out on a non-Apple web page that (apparently) AppleScript
> is always reading binary files in big-endian mode, I have abandoned this
> script. I wrote a C command line tool in just a few minutes that did
> exactly what I wanted.
>
> Thanks for your help, everybody. If there is more information on how to
> do this in AppleScript, I am still interested!
>
> - Rick
>
> On 12/4/2007 7:35 PM, jj wrote:
>>> First, running Leopard I do reiterate I get an error.
>>
>> Ooops! I didn't read before this issue was Leopard-related. I thot it was
>> only Intel-related.
>>
>> I can only confirm that reading small reals works fine in my machine, OS X
>> 10.4.11 ;-)
>>
>>
>> jj
>>
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