Pharo FileSystem: How do I write a binary file?

Question

 TabularResources testExcelSheet

from this project gives me a binary representation in a literal array of an Excel file.

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testExcelSheet

^ #[80 75 3 4 20 0 6 0 8 0 0 0 33 0 199 122 151 144 120 1 0 0 32 6 0 0 19 0 8 2 91 67 111 110 116 101 110 116 95 84 121 112 101 115 93 46 120 109 108 32 162 4 2 40 160 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .....

....0 109 108 80 75 1 2 45 0 20 0 6 0 8 0 0 0 33 0 126 148 213 45 209 1 0 0 250 10 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 233 36 0 0 120 108 47 99 97 108 99 67 104 97 105 110 46 120 109 108 80 75 5 6 0 0 0 0 13 0 13 0 74 3 0 0 232 38 0 0 0 0]

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Question

How do I write this to the disk to see which kind of file it is?

Answer

(by Esteban, edited)

./TabularATest1.xlsx' asFileReference writeStreamDo: [ :stream | stream binary; nextPutAll: self testExcelSheet ]

Answer 1

Easiest way to do that is something like this:

'./file.bin' asFileReference writeStreamDo: [ :stream | 
    stream 
        binary; 
        nextPutAll: #[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0] ]

So the trick is just telling to the stream "be a binary file" :)