This crate provides convenience methods for encoding and decoding numbers in either big-endian or little-endian order. This is meant to replace the old methods defined on the standard library Reader and Writer traits.

Licensed under the UNLICENSE.

Documentation

http://burntsushi.net/rustdoc/byteorder/.

The documentation includes examples.

Installation

This crate works with Cargo and is on crates.io. The package is regularly updated. Add is to your Cargo.toml like so:

toml [dependencies] byteorder = "*"

If you want to augment existing Reader and Writer types, then import the extension methods like so:

```rust extern crate byteorder;

use byteorder::{ReaderBytesExt, WriterBytesExt, BigEndian, LittleEndian}; ```

For example:

```rust use std::old_io::MemReader; use byteorder::{BigEndian, ReaderBytesExt};

let mut rdr = MemReader::new(vec![2, 5, 3, 0]); // Note that we use type parameters to indicate which kind of byte order // we want! asserteq!(517, rdr.readu16::().unwrap()); asserteq!(768, rdr.readu16::().unwrap()); ```