Re: [Boost-users] Does boost have something to support binary data streams?

From: me22 (me22.ca_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-09 21:50:18

On 2/9/07, Michael Marcin <mmarcin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I commonly need to write and read binary data from files.
> The streams in the standard library are very tedious to use for such tasks.
> I'd like to be able to construct a stream thats loads a little endian binary
> data file and use it to write/read data with the insertion/extraction
> operators on big endian or little endian systems.
>
I don't think there are any current libraries for this.

Beman Dawes made a library that might be useful, however:
http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Integer

HTH

~ Scott McMurray