Thanks. This is exactly what I want. I have thought about doing it this
way, it is just that from memory, there is a libc function that does the
equivalent.
shao.
Matthew Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sorry... I automatically made a link between binary data and hexadecimal
> data...
>
> You could shift 8 bits of the unsigned long into a unsigned char one at
> a time, and print that character with a %c in the printf, or use
> putchar() or something.
>
> eg:
> unsigned long l = 0x38c9616e;
> unsigned char c;
> :
> :
> c = (l & 0xFF000000) >> 24;
> putchar(c);
> c = (l & 0x00FF0000) >> 16;
> putchar(c);
> c = (l & 0x0000FF00) >> 8;
> putchar(c);
> c = l & 0x000000FF;
> putchar(c);
>
> Is this what you were looking for? I suppose you wanted something
> simple, ie using printf... I'm not sure about that.
>
> printf
> (
> "%c%c%c%c",
> (l & 0xFF000000) >> 24,
> (l & 0x00FF0000) >> 16,
> (l & 0x0000FF00) >> 8,
> l & 0x000000FF
> );
> this might be as close as you can get.
>
> Shao Zhang wrote:
> >
> > But isn't %[Xx] just prints out as Hexdecimal?
> > I just tried, and it prints out something like: 38c9616e
> >
> > which consumes 8 bytes in a file. Given that unsigned long is 32 bits,
> > I want to use exactly 4 byte to represent it in order to save some
> > space.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Shao.
> >
> > Matthew Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Try using %X or %x instead of %ld
> > >
> > > Shao Zhang wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > If I have an unsigned long int, instead printing out its values
> > > > in string using printf("%ld\n", my_var),
> > > >
> > > > I would like to print it out as a 4-byte binary data. Is there
> > > > any easy way to do this in C.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > Shao.
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