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    Question Store data in bits & Bytes

    Good Day,

    I have a text file that needs to be read into the program, must be modified
    & then when the data is stored again it needs to be stored in a new certain format

    Example
    Field Name | Size
    A | 2 bytes
    B | 4 bytes
    C | 12 bits
    D | 1 byte
    & so on...

    When I read data into program its stored in various arrays
    of type QPoint, QList<int>, QList<double> and so on

    I just need to know
    Does Qt support what I need to store data accordingly
    & if so,
    How would I go about it


    Kind Regards

    Help much appreciated
    Example will be glady accepted

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    Default Re: Store data in bits & Bytes

    How do you intend to save a 12-bit field in a file of whole bytes? You can write any bytes you want to a QFile but nothing here has anything specifically to do with Qt.

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    Default Re: Store data in bits & Bytes

    Was reading up on "Serializing Qt Data Types"
    http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/...eamformat.html

    I understand the concepts just not sure how to go about storing data in relevant variable size?

    My project from among other things is to store data in defined field size
    Using a qt interface to interact with use manipulate data
    and then store data accordingly

    how does qt store its data when variables are written to a file?
    How do I control the size of the fields within this field?

    Also How do I write qt data variables to file in BINARY FORMAT

    please help

    12bits binary format How

    Please direct me in the right direction
    Last edited by 2lights; 9th September 2013 at 13:44. Reason: updated contents

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    Default Re: Store data in bits & Bytes

    QFile is a QIODevice subclass. QIODevice has low level read and write methods that write byte arrays (C style char* or Qt/C++ QByteArray).

    This has nothing to do with QDataStream, that class is for serializing data types in a Qt specific format. Your data format is different so you obviously need to write the "parsing" and "formatting" code into bytes yourself.

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