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In this chapter you will learn how to shuffle binary data around with poke, in terms of fundamental predefined entities: bits, bytes, integers, and the like.
| • Binary Files: | Text vs. binary. | |
| • Files as IO Spaces: | Poking files. | |
| • Dumping File Contents: | A first look at a file’s bytes. | |
| • Poking Bytes: | Reading, manipulating and writing bytes. | |
| • Values and Variables: | Values can be stored in variables. | |
| • From Bytes to Integers: | Building numbers with bytes. | |
| • Big and Little Endians: | Pick your egg. | |
| • Negative Integers: | Going behind 0. | |
| • Weird Integers: | Incomplete bytes in numbers. | |
| • Unaligned Integers: | IO spaces are bit-oriented. | |
| • Integers of Different Sizes: | Promotion of integers in expressions. | |
| • Offsets and Sizes: | United values. | |
| • Buffers as IO Spaces: | Poking memory buffers. | |
| • Copying Bytes: | Moving data between IO spaces. | |
| • Saving Buffers in Files: | From memory to files. | |
| • Character Sets: | ASCII, Unicode, … | |
| • From Bytes to Characters: | Working with ASCII codes | |
| • ASCII Strings: | NULL-terminated strings. | |
| • From Strings to Characters: | Indexing strings. |
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