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BYTESWAP

Purpose:

Reverses the bytes of an input series.

Syntax:

BYTESWAP(series, datatype)

series

-

A series, the values to swap.

datatype

-

Optional. An integer, the binary data type for the output values described by either its macro name or integer code. Defaults to DOUBLE. Valid arguments are:

 

Name

Code

Data Type

Range

INT8

SBYTE

1

8-bit Signed Byte

-128 to +127

UINT8

UBYTE

BYTE

2

8-bit Unsigned Byte

0 to 255

INT16

SINT

3

16-bit (2-byte) Signed Integer

-32768 to +32767

UINT16

UINT

4

16-bit (2-byte) Unsigned Integer

0 to 65535

INT32

LONG

5

32-bit (4-byte) Signed Integer

-2,147,483,648 to +2,147,483,647

FLOAT

6

32-bit (4-byte) Floating Point

-1037 to +1038

DOUBLE

7

64-bit (8-byte) Floating Point

-10-307 to +10308

UINT32

ULONG

8

32-bit (4-byte) Unsigned Integer

0 to 4,294,967,295

INT64

9

64-bit (8-byte) Signed Integer

-9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to +9,223,372,036,854,775,807

UINT64

10

64-bit (8-byte) Unsigned Integer

0 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615

 

1000 + N

N-byte Signed Integer

-28N-1 to 28N-1-1

 

2000 + N

N-byte Unsigned Integer

0 to 28N-1

 

Returns:

A series or table.

Example:

byteswap(W1, INT16)

 

converts W1 into signed 2 byte integers and then reverses the bytes.

Example:

byteswap(W1, SINT)

 

converts W1 into signed 2 byte integers and then reverses the bytes.

Remarks:

BYTESWAP can be very useful when reading foreign data files via READB.

See Also:

BYTE2TYPE

CASTBYTE

READB

TYPE2BYTE

WRITEB