[Tutor] binary file query

[Prasad, Ramit]

>No *need* but, often convenient, regardless of whether the data was 
>written by a C struct or not.(*) It is a way to interpret binary data in 
>terms of fundamental data types such as ints, floats, strings etc.

>Trying to convert raw bytes representing floats into a floating point 
>number without using struct would be an interesting exercise. Using 
>struct it's trivial.

Interesting, I will keep it in mind. Thanks!

Ramit


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