ok here's a newbie question: how would i do this for floats?

Oh, that's tough. Well, just try the same code, it might just work (yeah right )

load into a four-byte integer, do the swap as is, then get the float out like this:


or like this:

thanks

ok next question: why cant cocoa display the strings contained in the file properly? (it always says something like \\302)

How are you loading them

first i load the file into a char buffer, then i do something along the lines of this:

char *tempName;
tempName = new char[chunkLength];
for(int j = 0; j<chunkLength; j++)
tempName[j] = *(char*)(buffer+j);


chunkLength is the length of the string

What's the type of buffer?

How are you printing them?

the buffer is a pointer to char
i print with NSLog ex. NSLog(@"string:%c", tempName);

%c is for characters, right? There should be a separate conversion for strings. I'll look it up...

%s for regular char* strings, %S for unicode.

ahhh stupid me

ok another stupid question: how do i get just one byte from the buffer and find the ascii value of it?

btw sorry for all these silly questions, im still getting used to weird cocoa and i was never really an expert in c/c++ anyway.

buffer[i] if buffer's a const char* containing ascii, and i is the index of the character you want...

i meant the ascii number value