Hi!
I've to solve an interesting interop project. I get a byte stream or a
byte array which contains the unmanaged memory representation of a
structure like
struct MyStruct {
short a;
byte b;
char c[10];
...
};
This structure comes from a mainframe what means that numeric values are
in big-endian format and characters are in EBCDIC encoding. How can I
translate this byte stream to a managed struct or class?
My attempt is to
1. extract the bytes for a structure field from the stream
2. swap the bytes to little-endian for numeric fields and use
System.BitConverter.Toxxx to convert the bytes to an instance of a managed
type
3. convert characters with an EbcdicEncoding class to a managed string
4. populate a managed struct or class field by field
Do you know a more elegant or simpler solution?
So long ...
Torsten
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