Alrighty, folks, I got a question for you. I'm writing a script that will need to take a string (as in quoted) of 1's and 0's and be able to write that to a file. I don't know how to do this, anyone able to help?

Seems easy, right? Well, I don't just want a text file full of 101010101010. I want to write to the file in binary mode, if you will. So the 1010110101 that the program gets in will be the actual 1's and 0's that make up the new file.

In case you were wondering, I know the format of a certain type of file and am trying to make a script to automate a portion of the editing/creation process. I would normally edit this file in a hex editor.

--Psi
print(pack("h*","e4f64702566756e60236c6f637560247f602265696e676021602075627c602861636b65627e2")."\n");

In reply to Writing a string of bits to a file, binary-style by PsionicMan

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