BinaryReadEx Function

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The relatively new BinaryReadEx function allows you to allocate a buffer size smaller than the file that you intend to read (with the BinaryReadEx function).

So for example, if you want to read 8 bytes of a file that is, say, 53 bytes, you can do a BinaryAlloc(8) to allocate 8 bytes, and then read just 8 bytes out of that file, e.g.:

file = "hello.txt"

buf = BinaryAlloc(8)
rc = BinaryReadEx(buf, 0, file, 0, 8)
Message("BinaryReadEx returned", rc)

BinaryFree(buf)

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Article ID:   W14146

Filename:   BinaryReadEx.txt