#### BINARY

#### Synopsis

    HELP:   Write binary data to memory
    TYPE:   OBJECT
    SYNTAX: BINARY(COMPRESS/CMP.{},ENCRYPT/ENC.{},ENCODE/COD.{},TABLE(),AVSCAN())

#### Description

Format binary formats each element to one block/record. These binary chunks can then be used as byte stream (if the original was blocks) or as list of records.

Such data blocks are the simplest form of data type handled by FLAM. You can access the data based on the byte offset, but no further knowledge about the data is known in FLAM. If record elements are processed, validation/replacement/substitution using regular expressions can be activated. For binary records, regular expression matching is performed using the local ASCII or EBCDIC single byte character set. For text records, the validation is done in UTF-8.

Using only binary blocks with FLAM will mainly be equal to the behavior and ability of other encryption and compression tools. All other methods of data handling with FLAM will provide much more advantage to you.