Thanks guys. I just wanted a reality check.
I'm moving some data from C# to C++ code, so I'll just have to duplicate
that algorithm over on the C++ side of things.
Cheers,
-John
http://www.iunknown.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Henk de Koning
Sent: Thu 4/18/2002 4:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: [DOTNET] BinaryWriter.Write( string )
7 bit int encoding is a wellknown variable lengtrh encoding. You
can find
the definition of it in the Java class file format (and some
other places
;-);-).
-- Henkk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marsh, Drew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [DOTNET] BinaryWriter.Write( string )
> John Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
> > With short strings, it does write out the length as a single
> > byte. With longer strings, it does expand it to a word. Now,
> > when reading this thing back in, how does one determine
> > whether the length prefix is one or two bytes????
>
> John,
>
> While I don't have time to totally dissect it right this
second, I whipped
> out ILDASM and looked at BinaryReader::GetString and it defers
to a
> protected method called BinaryReader::Read7BitEncodedInt which
seems to
use
> BinaryReader::ReadInt in two different forms to figure out if
it should
read
> it as a byte or a word.
>
> Like I said I don't have time to dissect the algorithm they
use to know
when
> it's a word vs. a byte, but hopefully this will send you down
the right
> path.
>
> HTH,
> Drew
>
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