P Kishor wrote:
> I have an inherited C program that reads data that has been outputted
> by an IDL program to a binary file on the disk using IDL's WRITEU
> function. See http://www.physics.nyu.edu/grierlab/idl_html_help/files28.html
> for information on WRITEU.
>
> I have the data in a database as well, that I can happily read with
> DBI. Is there a way I can write out the results of the query from the
> database into the same kind of binary file as produced by WRITEU?
>   
You should look at PDL::IO::FlexRaw and PDL::IO::FastRaw.  The former in 
particular "is designed to read output from FORTRAN 77 UNFORMATTED files 
and the low-level C write function."  My guess is this is similar to 
what IDL's WRITEU and READU do.

Derek

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