[erlang-questions] Bit Packing question

Santosh Kumar santosh79@REDACTED
Sat Dec 13 15:25:56 CET 2014


Hi Wes,
I just tried <<BNum:4/binary>> and that didn't work as well. Here are the
complete steps I ran through in erl:

1> Num = 128.

128

2> BNum = <<Num>>.

<<128>>

3> Packet = <<BNum:4/binary>>.

** exception error: bad argument


Any help much appreciated.


Thanks

Santosh

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Wes James <comptekki@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> According to:
>
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.html
>
> after the / you need integer, float or binary, i.e., <<BNum:4/binary>>
>
> -wes
>
>
> On Fri Dec 12 2014 at 9:22:59 PM Santosh Kumar <santosh79@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
>> Hrm, I'm not sure I understand. Here's some code:
>>
>> Num = 128.
>>
>> 128
>>
>>
>> So, Num is a number. I then do:
>>
>> BNum = <<Num>>.
>>
>>
>> Now, BNum is a binary. I check it too:
>>
>> is_binary(BNum).
>>
>> true
>>
>>
>> I now, try doing:
>>
>> Packet = <<BNum:4/bytes>>.
>>
>> ** exception error: bad argument
>>
>>
>> Here, I am trying to create another binary Packet, that is 4 bytes long
>> as and has as it's contents BNum. If what you say is true and "/bytes"
>> is used to pack Binary data this would work. Unless I am missing something.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your response.
>>
>>
>> Santosh
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>
>>> 'bytes' is for packing binaries, not numbers. The working example you
>>> have is the correct way to do it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, December 12, 2014, Santosh Kumar <santosh79@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi group,
>>>> I was trying to pack a number into 4 bytes and was having a hard time
>>>> doing it. Here is what I was trying:
>>>>
>>>> 102> Num = 128.
>>>>
>>>> 128
>>>>
>>>> 103> <<Num:4/bytes>>.
>>>>
>>>> ** exception error: bad argument
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> While this works:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 104> <<Num:32>>.
>>>>
>>>> <<0,0,0,128>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here the packing into 32 bits works but the packing into 4 bytes fails.
>>>> Not sure why.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any help, much appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Santosh
>>>>
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