Try `reinterpret(UInt8, x.chunks)`
On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 1:01:47 AM UTC-4, Sweta Yamini wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am new to Julia. I have an N X N BitArray that I want to pack to Uint8
> of size N X ceil(N/8)
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> I tried to reinterpret the array as
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> packed = reinterpret(Uint8, mybitarray)
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> but it gives me an error "auto_unbox: unable to determine argument type"
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> I tried
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> packed = convert(Array{Uint8}, bitpack(mybitarray))
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> but it just gives me an N X N Uint8 array with 0 and 1.
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> Could you help me with this?
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> Sweta
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