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

From: Michael Marcin (mike_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-10 14:27:44

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.
> 

I'm sort of surprised more people don't need this... maybe they just 
roll their own?

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

I'll take a look, thanks.

- Michael Marcin