Re: How to process each byte in a binary file?

You could then seek() and tell() around the string, or read() in 1 byte increments.

I'm not sure what's under the covers, but both seem elegant from the outside.

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Re: Re: How to process each byte in a binary file? by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Aug 12, 2002 at 21:27 UTC
Doing a `read` of one byte does indeed work better than changing the input record size as suggested by an earlier reply. It also runs an order of magnitude slower than the next slower method under discussion! How it works under the covers? It uses `substr`. —John	[reply] [d/l] [select]