Easy mistake, I had the same problem the first time I tried to use
reinterpret.
You need to do:
reinterpret(Uint8, spaces)
On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 3:28:14 PM UTC+2, Glen H wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a built-in to convert a Vector{Uint32} to an ASCIIString? The
> Uint32 represents 8-bit ASCII. I tried:
>
>
> julia> spaces = [0x20202020,0x20202020]
> 2-element Array{UInt32,1}:
> 0x20202020
> 0x20202020
>
>
> julia> reinterpret(Vector{Uint8}, spaces)
> ERROR: type does not have a canonical binary representation
> in reinterpret at array.jl:111
>
> julia> bytestring(spaces)
> ERROR: MethodError: `bytestring` has no method matching
> bytestring(::Array{UInt32,1})
>
>
> I could write the data to an IOBuffer and then do takebuf_string but I was
> hoping for a more efficient method.
>
> Glen
>
