Re: Bitlevel manipulation

[Paul Kienzle]

Kai Habel wrote some bit manipulation functions.   Unlike matlab, they
are limited to
32 bits per value rather than the 52 or so that matlab provides.  You can
find them
on sf.net/projects/octave in the CVS tree.   Look in the octave/dld tree.

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden

Burmz wrote:

> Hi People,
>
> I'm a newbie to Octave. I have had a little experience with matlab but
> not a great deal. I am currently working on a project that involves
> being able to read in a bit-stream, modify that bit-stream and then
> save the new stream.
>
> Now the save bit isn't to bad, but I need to be able to perform
> bit-level manipulation, which means that I need to be able to read in
> the stream as bits, rather than integers or chars. The fread function
> in matlab does have this ability, but it appears taht it doesn't exist
> in octave in the same format. Is there a function that allows me to
> read in the file so that I can view individual bits? Or are there
> functions taht allow me to access an integer array at the bit-level.
>
> Thanks for you time and I look forward to your response
>
> Jason Burman
> Computer Eng UnderGrad
> University of Wollongong
> NSW, Australia
>
> address@hidden
>
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