How to read binary text with the File tool ?

[Jean-Philippe Audoin]

Hi everybody,

I am trying to solve an issue while reading a file that mix text and binary content.

I am wondering if the reading abilities of the Storage/File tool is adapted to binary content.
Whatever how I try to do it, the "text" variable supposed to get my file's content doesn't have the right size: I suppose it looses specific ASCII characters which are not considered as text.
Is there a way to handle binary files with this tool ? Am I misusing it, is it a bug, or a normal behavior ? (documentation is reaaaaaly poor).

Does anybody knows how to deal with reading/writing binary files ?

Thanx for help !

[Taifun]

the file component can only read text files

Is there a way to handle binary files with this tool ?

what exactly are you trying to do?

you could write your own extension and create a block yourself...

more information about how to create an extension see here https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mitappinventortest/Ip2AX036d0U/5NJlAEbFCgAJ

however that will be more advanced and will require some Java skills...

Taifun

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