[PD] Reading and writing binary files

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, David wrote:

> It's probably very obvious, but I can't figure out how to read and write 
> files containing arbitrary binary data. I know there are objects for 
> reading and writing sound files, and there's [textfile] for reading text 
> files, but I want to read and write binary files, and interpret each 
> byte as a 16-bit integer. Does anyone have an example I can look at? 
> Since they will be small files, I just need to read them sequentially, I 
> don't need to jump around in the file randomly.

use [#in grid myfilename.zzz, headerless, type s]

see http://gridflow.ca/help/%23io.grid-help.html
and http://gridflow.ca/help/%23in-help.html
and http://gridflow.ca/help/%23out-help.html

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