cbinwrite

Creates a binary file in raw C block I/O format for a numeric data type.

Prototype

	procedure cbinwrite (
		filename [1] : string,   
		var          : numeric   
	)

Arguments

Name of C binary file to open. May include an absolute or relative path to the file.

A numeric variable of any dimensionality.

Description

The cbinwrite function is used to create a binary data file from a variable of type numeric. By default, the elements of value are written to the file in row x column order using the machine's native binary format. To force the byte order to be written as big-endian or little-endian, see the "WriteByteOrder" option in the setfileoption procedure.

See Also

fbindirwrite , fbinrecwrite, setfileoption

Examples

Example 1

;
; Write a C binary file called "tmp_file_x" with six elements.
;
    x = (/10.,20.,30.,40.,50.,60./)
    cbinwrite("tmp_file_x",x)
;
; Read the file back in. "y" will be an array of length 6. 
;
    y = cbinread("tmp_file_x",-1,"float")
    print(y)
;
; Read the  same file, only this time formatting it as a 2 x 3 array.
;
    z = cbinread("tmp_file_x",(/2,3/),"float")
    print(z)

Example 2

From ncl-talk: I am using 'cbinwrite' to output some binary data to a file. Since I am writing data in a loop, I found that cbinwrite will overwrite the previous data every time. Does anybody know how to write the data in the file without overwriting?

    cbinwrite("file.bin",data)
    do i = 1, number_of_writes -1
       newdata = ....
       cbinwrite("tmp.bin",newdata)
       system("cat tmp.bin >> file.bin")
    end do