Answers my question, thank you for the response. Jon
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Martin Braun <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06.02.2014 16:24, Jonathan Fox wrote: > >> Got a question concerning the byte data type in GNU Radio. I am writing >> my own PSK modulator and I am having an issue understanding how the byte >> data type appears as I am using it for my input. >> >> I know byte is a char data type in C++ however how does it come in? Is >> it the binary data stream of a character? Is it exactly how it is typed >> in, e.g. 1, 3, 5? >> >> I am asking because the test data I am trying to modulate is a series of >> prime numbers in a vector source block. So I am not entirely sure if I >> have to do the conversion to binary myself. I have tried to do a file >> sink to see how char data appear but the file is just repeating >> characters that make no sense. >> > > Jonathan, > > byte is just that -- bytes. If you're reading from a file, the bytes of > this file get streamed as-is. > > Don't confuse this with characters / strings! If you write '23' into a > file, you'll get two bytes, with the ASCII codes of each character. > > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >
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