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3 Basic Editing

In this chapter you will learn how to shuffle binary data around with poke, in terms of fundamental predefined entities: bits, bytes, integers, and the like.

• Binary Files
• Files as IO Spaces
• Dumping File Contents
• Poking Bytes
• Values and Variables
• From Bytes to Integers
• Big and Little Endians
• Negative Integers
• Weird Integers
• Unaligned Integers
• Integers of Different Sizes
• Offsets and Sizes
• Buffers as IO Spaces
• Copying Bytes
• Saving Buffers in Files
• Character Sets
• From Bytes to Characters
• ASCII Strings
• From Strings to Characters
• Strings are not Arrays