Re: Writing binary numbers

[Jamie Webb <j@...>]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 10:17, Jose Marin wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is there some way of using the Lua libraries to write
> binary numbers to a file?

Not directly AFAIK, probably because the variations in binary representation 
would be confusing. It's not too hard though to decide what representation 
you want to use and build the bytes yourself. E.g., to write a positive 
32-bit integer in unsigned little-endian format, you could do:

file:write(string.char(math.mod(num, 256), math.mod(num, 65536)/256,
	math.mod(num, 16777216)/65536, num/16777216))

 -- Jamie Webb