| Re: Read words coded on 3 bytes (24 bits) in IDL [message #30680] |
Fri, 10 May 2002 10:52 |
Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996
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cinthia.loial@infoterra-global.com (Cinthia) writes:
> Hi all,
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> Any suggestion to read words coded on 3 bytes (24 bits) in IDL?
Yes. Read first as bytes, then convert to whatever you need.
bb3 = bytarr(3, NWORDS)
readu, unit, bb3
For example to convert to long, you would fill it into a 4-byte array,
then convert to long:
bb4 = bytarr(4, NWORDS)
bb4(0:2,*) = bb3
ll = long(bb4, 0, NWORDS)
Then at that stage you may need to do bit twizzling, depending on your
architecture, using the BYTEORDER procedure.
Good luck,
Craig
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