Re: fread using bit8

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 11, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Hoffman, Christopher S wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Abbott [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 5:29 AM
> To: Hoffman, Christopher S
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: fread using bit8
> 
>> On Aug 10, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Hoffman, Christopher S wrote:
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ben Abbott [mailto:address@hidden
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 6:04 PM
>>> To: Hoffman, Christopher S
>>> Cc: address@hidden
>>> Subject: Re: fread using bit8
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 10, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Hoffman, Christopher S wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I am trying to use the fread command on bit8 binary data. Octave does not 
>>>>> support that, is there a workaround?
>>>> 
>>>> I haven't tried to do this before, but if you can provide a complete 
>>>> example for me I (or someone else) can try to debug it, or find a work 
>>>> around.
>>>> 
>>>> Also please tell us what version of Octave you are running.
>>>> 
>>>> Ben
>>> 
>>> Thanks Ben: I will work on an example for you. I am using version 3.2.4.
>>> 
>>> Chris
>> 
>> Chris, I tried a short example that works for me.
>> 
>> fid = fopen ('fubar.bin', 'wb');
>> fwrite (fid, magic (5), 'int8');
>> fclose (fid);
>> fid = fopen ('fubar.bin','rb');
>> a = fread (fid, [5,5], 'int8')
>> fclose (fid);
>> 
>> a =
>> 
>>  17   24    1    8   15
>>  23    5    7   14   16
>>   4    6   13   20   22
>>  10   12   19   21    3
>>  11   18   25    2    9
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Cool, so looks like int8 and uint8 can work the same as bit8 and ubit8? I'll 
> give it a shot 
> 

I've submitted a bug report due to the missing "bitN" format.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?33991

Ben