Binary file grammar

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/08/15 15:12, wobbles wrote:

> Trouble with that is what if there's some funny formats some data is in?
> Like I described above a string which starts with a number and continues
> for that number of bytes.
> What if it's a string that goes on until you hit a '\0' ? A
> serialisation library like Orange couldnt do that, as it's merely for
> (de)serialising D objects, I think?

Orange can handle D strings. If it sees something like char* it will 
serialize it as a pointer to a char, not a C string. Orange supports 
custom archivers if you need the data in some special format.

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/Jacob Carlborg