From: "Eric C. Cooper" <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Big-endian shorts
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:50:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020114155025.GC21601@cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020114114109.GB11310@quetelet.bik-gmbh.de>
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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