Module types 

Type interpretation for reading and converting bytes from file buffers.

This module exposes the public type-reading API and dispatches to focused submodules for numeric and string handling.

Enums

TypeReadError

Errors that can occur during type reading operations.

Functions

coerce_value_to_type

Coerces a rule value to the signed width implied by type_kind.

read_byte

Safely reads a single byte from the buffer at the specified offset.

read_date

Safely reads a 32-bit Unix timestamp from the buffer at the specified offset and formats it as a human-readable date string.

read_double

Safely reads a 64-bit IEEE 754 double from the buffer at the specified offset.

read_float

Safely reads a 32-bit IEEE 754 float from the buffer at the specified offset.

read_long

Safely reads a 32-bit integer from the buffer at the specified offset.

read_pstring

Reads a Pascal-style length-prefixed string from the buffer.

read_qdate

Safely reads a 64-bit Unix timestamp from the buffer at the specified offset and formats it as a human-readable date string.

read_quad

Safely reads a 64-bit integer from the buffer at the specified offset.

read_regex

Scan buffer starting at offset for the first match of pattern.

read_search

Scan a bounded window of buffer for the first occurrence of pattern.

read_short

Safely reads a 16-bit integer from the buffer at the specified offset.

read_string

Safely reads a null-terminated string from the buffer at the specified offset.

read_string16

Reads a UCS-2 string from the buffer with the given endianness.

read_string_exact

Read exactly length bytes from the buffer at offset, with NO NUL truncation. Used for libmagic-compatible string PATTERN comparison where the magic value’s full byte length must be compared byte-for-byte against the file (including any embedded NULs in the pattern).

read_typed_value

Reads bytes according to the specified TypeKind.

read_typed_value_with_pattern

Reads bytes according to the specified TypeKind, threading a pattern operand through for pattern-bearing types (Regex, Search).