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

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-10 02:48:12

Hmmm - sounds to me like you want the serialization library.

Robert Ramey

me22 wrote:
> 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