How to proceed on opening a bin/binx file?

Hello all,

I am trying to read a bin/binx file (see the format attached). I am here to ask how do I proceed? What parameters/information is needed to begin with? Your help is much appreciated. Thank you.

[Rik]

The screenshot doesn't show the format of the file at all. You should try to figure out how to export the data to another format, or you will have to find out the format of the file itself, not what your viewer makes of it.

[Raju Kumar]

Hi Rik, Thank you for your reply. That is correct. It is a bin. file opened in a viewer. What else I should know (apart from the file type)? Could you please elaborate a bit? Thank you.

[Walter Roberson]

It looks like binx is Binary XML

Answer 1

[Krishna]

Hi Raju,

If you have a binary file, you can read from it using the following commands,

fid = fopen('data.bin','rb') % opens the file for reading
A = fread(fid, count, 'int16') % reads _count_ elements and stores them in A.

The commands fopen and fread default to Little-endian[1] encoding for the integers. If your file is Big-endian encoded you will need to change the fread to

A = fread(fid, count, 'int16', 'ieee-be');

And if you want to read the file's data into matrix with n columns use

count=[n inf];

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

.binx files are an extension to XML to provide keywords to describe binary files. The .binx file is XML does not contain the binary data itself: it refers to it by URI; the .binx having provided structured information to describe the file format.

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.458.3755&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Unfortunately at the moment I do not see any functions to read from such files -- not in MATLAB, not in Python.