Dave Coventry wrote: > I have a file into which I want to put a long integer: > > 00 00 19 7A > > The file expects the value in the form: > > buffer[0]:=122; > buffer[1]:=25; > buffer[2]:=0; > buffer[3]:=0; > > I am then intending to write this buffer to the file > > FS.Writebuffer(buffer,4); > > Is there a way of loading the buffer directly before writing?
You could use the Absolute directive to map a longint variable to your buffer. Not pretty, but fast ;-) procedure LoadBuffer; var Buffer: Array[0..127] of Byte; l: Longint Absolute Buffer; begin l:= 6522; end; Regards, Bernd. _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus