Pike v8.1 release 6

Method System.Memory()->pread32()


Method pread32

string pread(int(0..) pos, int(0..) len)
string pread16(int(0..) pos, int(0..) len)
string pread32(int(0..) pos, int(0..) len)
string pread16i(int(0..) pos, int(0..) len)
string pread32i(int(0..) pos, int(0..) len)
string pread16n(int(0..) pos, int(0..) len)
string pread32n(int(0..) pos, int(0..) len)

Description

Read a string from the memory. The 16 and 32 variants reads widestrings, 16 or 32 bits (2 or 4 bytes) wide, the i variants in intel byteorder, the normal in network byteorder, and the n variants in native byteorder.

len is the number of characters, wide or not. pos is the byte position (!).