How to divide u32 into 4 u8's as an array?

[eager wedge]

?

Actually i want to read a string that is 4 characters length it is guaranteed but when i try to print the u32 as a string since it cannot be possible i want to divide u32 as 4 bytes so that i can print each byte as a character

[mellow nexus]

std.mem.sliceAsBytes? it will have different results on little-endian and big-endian machines though

how did you get a string in a u32 in the first place?

[eager wedge]

iam reading it from a file

like i have pakced struct and iam reading struct

[mellow nexus]

you could put it in the packed struct as [4]u8 instead of u32

[eager wedge]

so for the tag it is u32 but it is a string

[eager wedge]

does it take?

let me try

[mellow nexus]

just don't try to do that with non-power of two ints. [4]u1 won't work, it will take up four bytes

[eager wedge]

no i have put [4]u8 it is not taking

packed structs dont have a field [4]u8

[mellow nexus]

what do you mean? show me the packed struct

[eager wedge]

ok

const TableDirectory = packed struct {
    tag: [4]u8,
    checksum: u32,
    offset: u32,
    length: u32,
};```

[mellow nexus]

oh ok nevermind then

std.mem.sliceAsBytes(&[_]u32{packed_struct.tag}) should work

[eager wedge]

ok

[raw widget]

or std.mem.asBytes for a single item