Is there any library out there for c# that has the equivalent to "Unpack" in PHP and what is "Unpack"

Question

I just want to convert a piece of PHP code to C# so I need it's equivalent.

And what does unpack really do? I'm very interested in this function.

Answer 1

Unpack reads the binary data according to the data type you tell it to parse as and returns the values in an array.

The closest thing I can think to this would be to a struct within C(++) / C#, where it populates the struct's members with information from the binary data. A struct within C style languages is like an object, but without methods.

I can't think of any good examples right now on how to read data into a struct, but that's because I'm not really very good at C or C++ or C# for that matter. Try looking at this for examples on how to read data into structs ... or as always ... google it.