The binary
data type represents a stream of bytes. In string
form, a binary
appears as a string of hexadecimal digits.
A binary
is manipulated using the chunk types byte
, tinyInt
, shortInt
, medInt
, longInt
, halfFloat
, singleFloat
, and doubleFloat
.
Two global properties, unsigned
and littleEndian
, control the signedness and byte order of the binary chunk types, respectively. The unsigned
property is false
, or signed, by default. The littleEndian
property is false
, or big-endian, by default.