[Caml-list] Big-endian shorts

[Caml-list] Big-endian shorts

[Florian Hars]

What is the preferred way to read a file with fixed-length records
consisting of 2700 unsigned, bigendian short ints each in Ocaml?
Everything is a string?

Yours, Florian Hars.
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Re: [Caml-list] Big-endian shorts

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:41:09PM +0100, Florian Hars wrote:
> What is the preferred way to read a file with fixed-length records
> consisting of 2700 unsigned, bigendian short ints each in Ocaml?
> Everything is a string?

You can use Bigarray with int16_{signed,unsigned} elements obtained
via map_file.  If you want portability (i.e. on a little-endian
platform), you can optionally byte-swap the int16s arithmetically.
Or you can manipulate chars in a string as you suggest.

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