Re: Writing Binaries to and Reading Binaries from Disk
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
Lothar Kimmeringer wrote:
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
Lothar Kimmeringer wrote:
outstream.write(myshort & 0xff);
outstream.write((myshort >> 8) & 0xff);
other direction:
short myshort = instream.read() & 0xff;
myshort |= (instream.read() << 8) & 0xff;
What advantages does this have compared to wrapping the output stream in
a DataOutputStream and using its writeShort method?
As I said (and you quoted it above):
HSB is used with DataOutputStream, if you
want to write LSB you need to do the writing for yourself:
Remember the original question "How do you do that in Java, write binary
<short>s to disk and then later read in those <short>s from disk again?"
What advantage to you see, given that requirement, to writing the data
in little-endian format?
Elsethread, the O.P. has explained that the data will be
consumed by a C program that expects to read a "native" format.
--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid
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