Re: Blockchain parsing

Quote from: Zeilap on May 19, 2013, 11:08:56 PM

Quote from: kerzane on May 19, 2013, 02:40:00 PM

Anyone know the solution to this problem?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification#Variable_length_integer

Read the first byte as uint8 and check its value, you have 4 choices,

<0xFD: use the value as it is
0xFD:      read 2 more bytes as uint16
0xFE:    read 4 more bytes as uint32
0xFF:       read 8 more bytes as uint64

Thanks Zeilap, I think I follow, I hadn't found that entry in the specification before, I'll try it out when I get a chance.