Re: Newbie: working with binary files/extract png from a binary file

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Subject	Re: Newbie: working with binary files/extract png from a binary file
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Le vendredi 1 février 2008 12:21:15 UTC+1, Jim a écrit :
> On Jan 30, 7:29 pm, Adam Shelly <adam.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > from the same docs:
> > "MatchData acts as an array. ...  mtch[0] is equivalent to ... the
> > entire matched string. "
> >
> > so m.begin(0) returns the offset of the start of the matched string
> > (in this case, the start of the png header).  Since the string
> > contains the contents of the whole file, the string offset is the same
> > as the file offset we need.
> > -Adam
> 
> OK, it's really not that hard is it?
> 
> input.read(N) read N bytes from the stream. From the spec we know PNG
> has an header (they call a signature) that is 8 bytes. Check it. If
> it's a PNG, read the chunks until IEND
> 
> The only other thing is unpack("N"). From the docs it takes a string
> of 4 bytes and returns a Fixnum.
> 
> Thanks again for the code. The file I'm extracting is a SketchUp 3d
> model, btw.

hi 

 i would like to know how change the size of png extract cause is thumbails and i would like to have bigger png extract 

thanks a lot 

Gabriel

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