Replace Some Bytes In Binary File?
Mar 13, 2011I want to replace some bytes from a binary file .[code]...
If the value of the textbox is too short I want to replace the remaining bytes for a new value "0"
I want to replace some bytes from a binary file .[code]...
If the value of the textbox is too short I want to replace the remaining bytes for a new value "0"
The question is quite simple for all of you . I have a binary file . A description for this file says that
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I want to open a file and to replace from 2MB to 3MB of it with another 1MB file. Is it possible?
View 5 Repliesi need to read binary file and in this file found the string and replace it with other one and save the file afterwords. I found many example to read binary, but to find and replace is for me mistery.
View 3 RepliesI need to basically search for either a string such as "I-AM-RIGHT-OVER-HERE" or search for a sequence of bytes and return the offset of where that string or byte sequence is at.
View 1 RepliesI need to read a binary file. The Byte-Ordering in this file is different from the Intel-Standard. In good old FORTRAN I've used Equivalence-Statement in such cases (For example Defining a 4-Byte-Integer-variable and 4 Bytes at the same memory location / read the file as bytes / store them in the neccessary order / access the memory using the Integer-Variable). In VB dotnet I programmed a solution using shift-operators:
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I created a text file contains 4 bytes of data
AABBCCDD
I just want to read the first 2 bytes (AABB) to execute it with my program.
Then I'll need to read the last 2 bytes (CCDD) for another computer routines
I need to add some information to a PDF (Trim Box proporties, actually replace Media Box proporties with Media Box and Trim Box proporties), and I dont have the support in my PDF-motor. So I found out that I can use Notepad++ to open the PDF as a text file and simply add the Trim Box properties as a string and save it. Now I want to do it automatically with vb.net. When I use Stream Reader/Writer the PDF gets destroyed and loses information (Stream Reader dont read all the NUL, SOH, STX etc. I guess). I tried to read the PDF using ReadAllBytes/WriteAllBytes and then it works good, but then I don't know how to replace "Media Box ..." with "Media Box.Trim Box.". I try to use IndexOf but I can only search for single Byte not the whole string. I'm not good in binary and thats perhaps the problem :-). Does anyone have a better way doing it or how do I search for my string "Media Box" in binary?
View 3 RepliesI am using replace function to replace a character in the file
sw.WriteLine(Regex.Replace(strLine, "\", Chr(13)))
This code is working fine, but now I want to replace two times and I want to use the replace function twice. Something like this, but it is not working . Can anyone tell me how to use Replace function multiple times?
sw.WriteLine(Regex.Replace(strLine, "\", Chr(13)).Replace(strLine, Chr(13), ""))
actually replace Media Box proporties with Media Box and Trim Box proporties), and I dont have the support in my PDF-motor. So I found out that I can use Notepad++ to open the PDF as a text file and simply add the Trim Box proporties as a string and save it. Now I want to do it automatically with vb.net. When I use Stream Reader/Writer the PDF gets destroyed and loses information (Stream Reader dont read all the NUL, SOH, STX etc. I guess).
I tried to read the PDF using ReadAllBytes/WriteAllBytes and then it works good, but then I don't know how to replace "Media Box ..." with "Media Box... Trim Box...". I try to use IndexOf but I can only search for single Byte not the whole string. I'm not good in binary and thats perhaps the problem :-). Does anyone have a better way doing it or how do I search for my string "Media Box" in binary?
I want it to do is that you input a string, then you select an algorithm (Theres only going to be one RijnDael) then you input a key, then the Initialization Vector comes from "txtIV.text" then you select the key bytes and the block bytes from the numeric up/down, then you either encrypt or decrypt.
View 1 RepliesOk i am having some issues designing a base-class to handle generics.Caveat is i need to restrict the type put in as a Numeric type, specifically Int16, Int32, or Int64 (Short or Long).I know you can do Of T as {Structure} but i dont want to select the key bytes and the block bytes from the numeric up/down.
View 2 RepliesI keep getting a ProtocolViolationException "Bytes to be written to the stream exceed the Content-Length bytes size specified." on the following code.I've tried setting Content-Length numerous ways with no success.
Dim url = "https://domain.com"
Dim req As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(url)
req.Method = "POST"
req.ContentType = "application/xml"
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What exactly does this line do?
i = stream.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)
Does it read the entire message string sent by the client? I have a line to write to the stream later in the code and that does not seem to be sending anything back to the client, although the code around is excuting.
i = stream.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)
While (i <> 0)
Try
' Translate data bytes to a ASCII string.
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I've been trying for a long time to create a sorted table of values in a particularly specific way, and I seem to be running into a wall in .NET's file operations. The premise is this - I'm creating a table of values which are being stored as [1 Byte][2 Bytes][3 Bytes]. The location within the file is a value that relates to these three stored values, and so I'm attempting to seek to a specific position in the file, write the 6 bytes into that position, and repeat. There are literally billions of these values, and the total file size is over 100 GB.
Now, I've tried multiple methods to do this, but every single time, it decides it needs to rewrite the ENTIRE FILE every time any change is made. This results in every one of these billions of iterations taking a good 15 minutes, making the task literally impossible. I'm using .NET 4, and I've attempted to use Text, Binary, and Random Access to get it not to rewrite the entire file every edit, but it simply will not obey.
So my question boils down to this: How do I edit specific bytes in a file without writing more than just those bytes? The entire file has been pre-created to the precise size required, and no bytes will be added or deleted in the process. I simply need to overwrite the bytes that already exist.
I need to write data to a file, preferably in binary format, but I am unaccustomed with the concept. Where's the easiest place to get the basics? I could come here with a specific need, but I'm at the point right now where I am more willing to work within the confines of keeping it simple.
Here's what I know:
1. how to open a new file
2. how to specify the record length
3. how to close the file
Some specific questions:
Does the record length have to be constant throughout the file?
Can I read the nth record without reading the whole file?
how to read bytes from a file... but is it possible to read each individual bit, one at a time?
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to change few bytes in a file to make unreadable or is it necessary to change each single byte?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to edit the bytes in a file. Using this code:
Dim stream As Stream = File.Open("file.exe", FileMode.Open)
stream.Write(File.ReadAllBytes("srcfl.exe"), "0446335", "srcfl.exe".Length)
I've got a web app where I'm trying to validate that an uploaded file is .PDF. I can't use ContentType because if the user renames the file to have a ".PDF" extension, the browser reports the MIME type to be ".PDF" even if it isn't.
I understand that one way to "validate" that a file is a PDF file is to look at the first four bytes, which should always be "%PDF". How do I open and read the first four bytes of a file in VB.NET to see whether or not they are equal to "%PDF"?
Probably missing something silly here, Her eis what my display looks like Sending image...(401303) I would prefer it displays as Sending image...(391 kb)
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I'm trying to open an existent file save a bytes in the start of it to later read them.
How can I do that? Because the "&" operand isn't working fo this type of data.
I'm using Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("text") to convert info to bytes and then add them.
I've been using the following code to download a text file from the web. It only downloads the first 100,000 bytes of the file which is no good if the file is big. The size of the file I'm downloading can vary from day to day, so I need to be able to download a text file of any size.
Dim wr As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create("http://sooty.postalgroup.co.uk/tempmac/nat-import.txt"), HttpWebRequest)
Dim ws As HttpWebResponse = CType(wr.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
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How can i return the value? using bytes?
I have an old fashion Database with several random access files and I need to import the data to a new Sql Server dababase the data. There are tables with 6 Bytes floating numbers fields and we have no Number data type with that length in VB. I tried and tried and... and can't find. I found this code in the ERP folder, is AlphaBasic. It use an envoirement namend A-shell from Microsabio .
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I am using the following code to write and empty (dummy) file to take up the remaining space on a device.RemSpace is a Public Variable declared as Long I have a function that gets the remaining space on the device and stores in the RemSpace variable (in bytes). I have tested with a msgbox to display the result of RemSpace, and it comes back correct (not 0). However, when the following code attempts to create the dummy file, the file is properly created but is only 0 bytes. What am I missing here?
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After getting the file name I create a new filestream and load all the bytes from the FileStream into a byte array, now I need to get certain bytes and store them in fields like the second 4 bytes are the time the file was created. When storing these in the variables should I store them as bytes or as string/integers/etc.
Or have I done it completely wrong?
EDIT:Should I be doing this way instead of a filestream?
Dim data() as Byte = File.ReadAllBytes(path1)
I am not so good with buffers and arrays and I dont know how to continue from here:
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My intention is to open an image file as bytes, Convert the bytes to a string, send bytes to server and server stores bytes in a database. Then I need to reverse the process and be able to convert the bytes to an image.
Well basicly i have a file from which i extract bytes and save them to a text file using this code :
Private Sub browse_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles browse.Click
Dim oFile As System.IO.FileInfo
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Everything works well, but I don't know how to recover this file using the extracted data from bytes ! I Know for example the first byte of that file is 39 But i just can't do :
dim mybytes() as byte
mybytes(1)=39
You see what im talking about? I Want to recover those bytes from the same file I saved
I have a BIN file which I need to write a single byte to at the end and maintain the previous data. Here is an example.Viewed with a hex editor the file may have F0 FD 48 D3 C0 as the data. I want to be able to add to the end of it FF so that when I view it with the hex editor it is displayed as F0 FD 48 D3 C0 FF. I know how to open files for putting data but how can I take those characters and write them to the end of a file. I tried using the put function ( Put #FileNo, , MyStr) where MyStr = the characters in the textbox but it doesn't seem to work. Here is some code.
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