Ahad L. Amdani <ahad.amdani@...> writes:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm doing some extension development on Wireshark through LUA and I can't
seem
> to find out how to pull just a single character from the packet. The packet
is
> encoded in little endian format, so I can use the tvbrange:le_uint and
> tvbrange:le_float functions to pull those types of values, but there doesn't
> seem to be a tvbrange:char() -- there is a tvbrange:string() but it doesn't
> work correctly, or at least, in my experience. I also tried the bytes() and
> tried to print out the bytearray, but that didn't work either.
>
I've just read that LUA also supports calling functions written in C. Is there
a C-based function pre-defined that takes specified amount of bytes or
characters from the packet? Possibly one that assumes little endian format,
such as the le_uint() and le_float() functions?
Thanks in advance,
Ahad
