I am trying to put together a (generic) binary parsing tool over the weekend that I can modify with specifics for a particular binary file (if someone could explain why there are different "types" of binary files, I would appreciate it…) at work on Monday. It is my understanding that parsing a binary file is faster than parsing plaintext, so to speed up my program, I would like to parse the binary file which has previously been converted to plaintext for parsing. I know about fread, but that seems to be something to read binary by converting it to plaintext – this is not what I want to do.
Any help with parsing a binary file (ie looking for specific values/phrase, which I will likely have to convert from plaintext to binary…) will be much appreciated.
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