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Re: Binary file created with IDL strings [message #57230]

Wed, 05 December 2007 16:51

Vince Hradil
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Registered: December 1999

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On Dec 5, 5:59 pm, peajai.all.the....@gmail.com wrote:
>> Are you sure all the strings are 20 characters? Have you looked at
>> the file in a hex editor?- Hide quoted text -
>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> I viewed the file in a hex editor and it appeared that I had the 20
> characters I was expecting but there was also 8 bytes of
> 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 14 after each string. So I skipped forward 616
> bytes and that worked! I am not sure what those extra 8 bytes are
> because nothing in the IDL code that was reading the file indicated
> there were any "extra" bytes.
>
> Thanks so much!
> PJ

Hmmm... 14 octal is FF?

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		Re: Binary file created with IDL strings By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 05 December 2007 16:51
		Re: Binary file created with IDL strings By: peajai.all.the.way on Wed, 05 December 2007 15:59
		Re: Binary file created with IDL strings By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 05 December 2007 13:46
		Re: Binary file created with IDL strings By: peajai.all.the.way on Wed, 05 December 2007 13:12
		Re: Binary file created with IDL strings By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 05 December 2007 09:12
		Re: Binary file created with IDL strings By: peajai.all.the.way on Wed, 05 December 2007 09:00
		Re: Binary file created with IDL strings By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 05 December 2007 08:36

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