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Re: Read & Write Binary Files

• Posted by Chris Bensler <bensler at nt.net> Nov 26, 2006
• 753 views

The only thing that is really different about binary files, is how you open them
and you can't or shouldn't use gets(). gets() is meant for reading in lines of
text and will remove certain characters. Binary files dont have 'lines'.

sequence data
integer fn,c
fn = open("file.dat","rb") -- open for binary reading
if fn != -1 then
  data = {}
  c = getc(fn)
  while c != -1 do -- until we reach EOF (-1)
    data &= c
    c = getc(fn)
  end while
  close(fn)
end if

Writing to a binary file is exactly the same as in text mode.


Chris Bensler
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