in reply to Re: Reading (and parsing) a byte stream
in thread Reading (and parsing) a byte stream
I'm afraid your shot misses—endianness has to do with byte order, not the significance of bits within bytes. So if you have a four-byte number, the most-significant byte may be at the beginning (Big-endian, or $Config{byteorder} eq '4321') or at the end (Little-endian, '1234'), but the values of the bytes themselves don't change.
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Re^3: Reading (and parsing) a byte stream
by acid06 (Friar) on Mar 06, 2006 at 04:12 UTC | |
by tye (Sage) on Mar 06, 2006 at 04:30 UTC |
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