Re: [sc-users] Arrays and class

[James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx>]

Or write the values individually as exactly the type you want:

myArray.do({ |value| f.putFloat(value) });

... that is, converting the individual values at the time of writing, rather than converting the array.

Converting the array implies necessarily making a new array, so if you don't want to make a copy, then I suppose converting the whole array is not really what you're after.

hjh

On Dec 28, 2008, at 9:01 PM, koonce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

When writing arrays of numbers to a binary file, the arrays need to be FloatArrays, as in:

f = File( "test", "wb");

f.write( FloatArray[1.0, 2.0 ] ) ;

If you had something like

IntegerArray[ 1, 2 ] or Array[ 1.1, 2.1 ]

and you needed to change, not the values but, the array class to FloatArray for printing, how would you do it short of simply creating a FloatArray copy of the array?

: H. James Harkins

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