You can use reinterpret. It's fast!
julia> a = [UInt8(i) for i=1:4]
4-element Array{UInt8,1}:
0x01
0x02
0x03
0x04
julia> reinterpret(UInt32, a)
1-element Array{UInt32,1}:
0x04030201
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Achu <ach...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to read a data stream off a server for our motion capture
> system. The protocol
> <https://qualisys.github.io/Real-Time-Protocol-Documentation/>says that
> the first four bytes represent the size of the whole packet and I can read
> that using readbytes(). To convert four UInt8s into one UInt32, I'm
> using
> s=bytes2hex(a) #where a is a Vector UInt8, 4
> parse(UInt32,"0x"*s)
>
> Is there a better way to do this?
>
> Thanks!
> Achu
>
