Re: [tlug] binary search of binary data

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Wright <edw@example.com> writes:

    Edward> Feels like there should be a simple answer to this, but it
    Edward> eludes me.

It depends on what you want to do with the bytes, and how big the file
is.  Here's my guess

$ python
>>> infile = open (FILE, "r")
>>> s = infile.readlines()
>>> r = compile ("\xec\xa5\xc1\x01")
>>> m = r.search (s, 0)
>>> while m:
>>>  print "match at %d\n" % m.start()
>>>  m = r.search (s, m.end())
>>> 
>>> ^D
$

    Edward> which works sometimes - depending on the hex values, I
    Edward> suppose.

Don't guess at why.  Tell us exactly how it fails, preferably by
capturing a session and attaching it.




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