Re: little endian read

Lance Dillon wrote:

Stdio.File fp;fp=Stdio.File(filename,"r");string str=fp->read(2);int res=array_sscanf(reverse(str),"%2c")[0];

Using %2c to read little endian probably only works on CPUs that are little endian to begin with.

Trying to find an easy way to make it variable, like 2 or 4 byte ints (there are some DWORDs in the file too).?? array_sscanf doesn't take parameters for the format, so I can't do "%*c",2 .

The best you can do at the moment, would be to read the whole file into a Stdio.Buffer, and then use read_int8() to pick it apart.

We could extend Stdio.Buffer.read_int() to support what has been discussed before, that when you specify n<0, it would do little endian instead of big endian.