[Tutor] character counter

2009-06-27 Thread julie
Hello, I need help with the following problem: *Write a loop that reads each line of a file and counts the number of lines that are read until the total length of the lines is 1,000 characters. Use a break statement to make sure that you don't continue reading the file once the 1,000 characters a

[Tutor] Handling binary file

2005-08-24 Thread Julie Lai
I have opened a file in binary mode. The 9th, 10th and 11th bytes contain the time in seconds. In order to get this value in decimal I did the following:   timeinsec = bytes[9] * 65536 + bytes[10] * 256 + bytes{11]   Would someone please advise if there is a better way to do this?   Thanks, Julie