From: Vianney Lecroart <acemtp@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T23:36:22+09:00
Subject: read write integer in binary into a file

Hello,

I have some big files with lot of "unsigned int" (4 bytes) numbers and I
want to read and write on these files.

Currently, I found this to write:

myfile << [mynum].pack("i")

and to read:

mynum = myfile.read(4).unpack("i").first

I wonder if there's not something faster/simpler to do that without the
need to convert the number into an array into a string to finally
serialize it.

Thank you.
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