Re: [Gambas-user] How do I manipulate binary files?

[Steven L. <st...@re...>]

Maybe this gives you some ideas.
=46or it works just fine to fill in forms under OO from gambas.

Regards,

Steven


Le lundi 29 octobre 2007 15:14, Fredrik Hansson a =E9crit=A0:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to write chars (bytes) directly into an OpenOffice file.
> The file is a document, a template, and at specific places I want to put
> in the right letters. In that way my application can fill in a form made
> in OpenOffice automatically. An old trick that used to work in
> Windows...
>
> But here's the problem: I read byte by byte from the document file.
> I look for specific words there (by combining the last 4 bytes for
> example).
>
> I have put field markers in the document, like H#01, but I can't find
> them when I'm reading the bytes. Shouldn't 'H' have the code 72 and '#'
> the code 35 for example? Or is that old ASCII not used in
> Linux/OpenOffice? Or am I using the wrong method when I try to read the
> file?
>
>   DIM b AS Byte
>   DIM fil AS file
>   fil =3D OPEN "document.odt" FOR READ
>   WHILE NOT Eof(fil)
>     READ #fil, b
>     IF b =3D 72 THEN 'look for the letter H
>     (etc)
>
> Anyone have a clue?
> /Fredrik
>
>
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