Reading a binary file?

[brambos]

Hi all.. I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to Xcode and Objective-C, so please bear with me.

I have a file with raw audio data (just a bunch of signed 16-bit integers) which I would like to read into an array.

All the examples I see just deal with reading text-files so I'm wondering how to read unformatted binary data with the app.

Any pointers?

Thanks!

[pwnified]

Originally Posted by brambos

Hi all.. I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to Xcode and Objective-C, so please bear with me.

I have a file with raw audio data (just a bunch of signed 16-bit integers) which I would like to read into an array.

All the examples I see just deal with reading text-files so I'm wondering how to read unformatted binary data with the app.

Any pointers?

Thanks!

Something like:

[myfilehandle seekToFileOffset:myOffset];
NSData *data = [myfilehandle readDataOfLength:myBLockSize];
SInt16 *rawData = data.bytes;
UInt32 length = data.length;

[brambos]

Thanks for the superfast response! That code makes a lot of sense, I'm going to try it out right away.

Cheers!