Re: [Boost-users] Does boost have something to support binary data streams?

me22 wrote:

On 2/9/07, Michael Marcin <mmarcin@method-solutions.com> wrote:

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I commonly need to write and read binary data from files. The streams in the standard library are very tedious to use for such tasks. I'd like to be able to construct a stream thats loads a little endian binary data file and use it to write/read data with the insertion/extraction operators on big endian or little endian systems.

I don't think there are any current libraries for this.

I'm sort of surprised more people don't need this... maybe they just roll their own?

Beman Dawes made a library that might be useful, however: http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Integer

I'll take a look, thanks. - Michael Marcin