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Hi all,

I would like to know if it is possible to modify bytes from a binary file using runrev ?

What I want to do for example is ... I load a binary file (which is a pure binary files filled with bytes),

then once loaded into a buffer I want to modify the 4th byte (offset $4) from the value it currently has (let say $80) into another value (let say $81 hex value)

then save this buffer into a new binary file...

How would you achieve that ?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hello,

I would like to know if it is possible to modify bytes from a binary file using runrev ?

Sure.

How would you achieve that ?

Load the file into a buffer, convert each character to a the hex value by using the baseConvert function. Make your changes and write the file back.

Robert

Thanks rrobert,

could you provide couple sample code to do that ? I am really novice in runrev

TIA.

you can also use the binarencode and binarydecode stuff, but if you're just beginning with rev, i suggest to try something else then binary stuff first.