is there a way to convert an audio file into a char array?

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:11:17PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> 	Yeah, I views the file with od -c; but wouldn't it be much faster
> 	to have the data file part of my test program than having to open,
> 	read, cat thru /dev/dsp each time, close file?  I stole the cat
> 	from the K&R book, and by reading the click.h data file it seems
> 	everything would go much faster.

Just read them all once, at start-up and store them in a buffer. You could use
mmap(2), but if the sound fragments are small, that might be a waste of memory
becasue mmap maps at least a page.

I'll send you a utility function I've written to read files into memory off-list.

Roland
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