public void FinishArray(Type t)
{
totalPaddingAdded += writeStream.AdvanceTo8ByteBoundary();
//now need to overwrite the dimensions with the correct value
writeStream.Seek((int)dimensionsStartPosition, SeekOrigin.Begin);
//silly matlab format dimension definition wasn't made for realtime streaming... without the following, strings would need to be transposed in matlab to be readable
if (t.Equals(typeof(char)))
{
writeStream.Write(dimensions[0]);
writeStream.Write(dimensions[1]);
}
else
{
writeStream.Write(dimensions[1]);
writeStream.Write(dimensions[0]);
}
//and the full size of the array
writeStream.Seek((int)totalLengthStartPosition, SeekOrigin.Begin);
writeStream.Write((int)(headerLength + dataLength + totalPaddingAdded));
//and the size of the data only
writeStream.Seek((int)dataLengthStartPosition, SeekOrigin.Begin);
writeStream.Write((int)dataLength);
//set pointer back to end of stream
writeStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End);
//indicate this array has finished, so the writeStream can be used by others
this.hasFinished = true;
}