Question

I trying to write to file in binary code.
In mathematica i have some sting that i encoded with huffman code , i need to write them to binary file and see what is the file size.

what is the best way to do it?

thanks.

Answer 1

You should be able to use this procedure for your purpose. Here some binary data is created in file and written out in binary format to streamoutput.gif:

file = ExportString[Graphics[Disk[]], "GIF"];
stream = OpenWrite["streamoutput.gif", BinaryFormat -> True];
BinaryWrite[stream, file];
Close[stream];
Import["streamoutput.gif"]

source:
Converting graphics with ExportString