Saturday, February 04, 2012
99 ways to program a hex, Part 27: C♯, binary stream
Jeff Cuscutis sent in another version of the C♯ program. He writes:
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- Jeffrey Cuscutis <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
- To
- Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>
- Subject
- Re: 99 Programs
- Date
- Sat, 4 Feb 2012 22:51:37 -0500
Modified to use BinaryReader instead of TextReader. It sort of worked on binary files before this, but replaced unprintable characters with “?” automatically when read.
It now does this correctly, but I had to make a wrapper function to read data from the Console as that is a TextReader.
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//
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//
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// C#, binary stream
using System;
using System.IO;
namespace Hex
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
if (args.Length == 0)
{
DoDump(ReadFromConsole, Console.Out);
}
else
{
foreach (var fileName in args)
{
try
{
using (var file = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
var tr = new BinaryReader(file);
Console.Out.WriteLine("-----{0}-----",fileName);
DoDump(tr.Read, Console.Out);
file.Close();
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.Error.WriteLine(e.Message);
}
}
}
}
// wrapper to fake reading from a TextReader to
// make it look like it is a BinaryReader
static int ReadFromConsole(byte[] buf, int index, int count)
{
var charBuf = new char[count];
int actuallyRead = Console.In.Read(charBuf, index, count);
for (int i = 0; i < charBuf.Length; i++)
{
buf[i] = (byte)charBuf[i];
}
return actuallyRead;
}
static void DoDump(Func<byte[], int, int, int> readFunc, TextWriter outFile)
{
const int blockLength = 16;
int actuallyRead;
var buf = new byte[blockLength];
var offset = 0;
while ((actuallyRead = readFunc(buf, 0, blockLength)) > 0)
{
var display = new char[blockLength+1];
outFile.Write("{0:X8} ",offset);
var j = 0;
do
{
outFile.Write("{0:X2} ", buf[j]);
if (!char.IsControl((char)buf[j]))
display[j] = (char)buf[j];
else
display[j] = '.';
offset++;
j++;
actuallyRead--;
} while ((j < blockLength) && (actuallyRead > 0));
display[blockLength] = '\0';
if (j < blockLength)
for (var i = j; i < blockLength; i++) outFile.Write(" ");
outFile.WriteLine(display);
outFile.Flush();
}
}
}
}
Update on Monday, February 6th, 2012
Jeff wrote me to add:
I forgot to mention that it also uses a generic signature to handle the
readFuncparameter inDoDump()
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