converting from bytes to int (taking care of endianness at byte level, and signedness):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- require 'struct' -- convert character codes to a Lua string - this may come from your source local str = string.char(0x00, 0x1d, 0xff, 0x23, 0x44, 0x32) -- format string: < = little endian, In = unsigned int (n bytes) local u16, u32 = struct.unpack('<I2I4', str) print(u16, u32) --> 7424 843326463 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function bytes_to_int(str,endian,signed) -- use length of string to determine 8,16,32,64 bits local t={str:byte(1,-1)} if endian=="big" then --reverse bytes local tt={} for k=1,#t do tt[#t-k+1]=t[k] end t=tt end local n=0 for k=1,#t do n=n+t[k]*2^((k-1)*8) end if signed then n = (n > 2^(#t-1) -1) and (n - 2^#t) or n -- if last bit set, negative. end return n end function int_to_bytes(num,endian,signed) if num<0 and not signed then num=-num print"warning, dropping sign from number converting to unsigned" end local res={} local n = math.ceil(select(2,math.frexp(num))/8) -- number of bytes to be used. if signed and num < 0 then num = num + 2^n end for k=n,1,-1 do -- 256 = 2^8 bits per char. local mul=2^(8*(k-1)) res[k]=math.floor(num/mul) num=num-res[k]*mul end assert(num==0) if endian == "big" then local t={} for k=1,n do t[k]=res[n-k+1] end res=t end return string.char(unpack(res)) end |
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