Re: Reading Binary or Hex Data from a File

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From: David Harmon
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 00:00

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With less than a year remaining till the end of the millennium,
on Thu, 3 Feb 2000 21:07:54 -0800 in comp.lang.c++,
"Alex Sramek" <losal4@mminternet.com> wrote:

>Hi, I have a bunch of .dat files that I need to read with a program I'm
>making.  However, I haven't found a way, with my limited c++ experience, to
>do so.  If fstream is used, special characters will most likely be
>overlooked, and the data I'm reading has a range from 00 to FF. 

Two key points:

1.  Make sure to open the stream with the ios::binary flag.

2.  Do not use operator<< and operator>>.  Use the read() and write()
member functions, or maybe get() and put().

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