[Gambas-user] Read and arrays

[Jussi Lahtinen]

OK, I didn't notice that... Thanks!

Jussi



2012/3/13 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>

> Le 12/03/2012 17:21, tobi a écrit :
> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
> >
> >> I was thinking quicker way to read large binary files to memory.
> >> And I noticed this; "The returned datatype can be one of the following:
> >> NULL, Boolean, Byte, Short, Integer, Long, Pointer, Single, Float, Date,
> >> String, Variant, any Array, Collection or structure".
> >> http://gambasdoc.org/help/lang/read?v3
> >>
> >> So, I wonder whether it is quicker to read data as array, instead of
> >> looping one (short) integer at time.
> >>
> >> But how to do that? Did I misunderstand something?
> >>
> >>
> >> tmpArr = Read hFile As Short[2000]
> >>
> >> Doesn't compile (unexpected '[')... or does this work only for data
> written
> >> as array, and read as Short[] without given bounds?
> >>
> >>
> >> Jussi
> >
> > i once watched the format of files to which arrays/collections were
> written. they consist, if i
> > remember correctly, of an identifier followed by the size and then the
> data.
> > if you write an array to a file you can only read that array back, i
> think.
> > so it works on datatype base, not on raw memory base if you Read As
> Datatype. reading as much as
> > possible in one call is definitely faster (that is the reason for which
> the standard libc streams are
> > buffered by default). reading raw memory arrays of fixed size may be
> done using memory streams...?
> > do they persist in gambas3? i can't check anything now.
> >
> > regards,
> > tobi
> >
>
> Arrays have Read() and Write() methods to read/write their contents
> from/to the disk.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
>
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