I'm trying to write a few programs, and they all involve reading files.
Everything I can find online either deals only with reading text files, or else outright confuses me.
I've got my program opening a file, making a new one and writing some dummy text to it, but what I can't figure out is how to actually do anything with the one opened.
Farty showed me some code that would take a file, print its hex contents into the console, and showed me how to print to a different file, instead, but...
Farty's used FILE*s, whereas everything I've been reading on the topic uses i/o/fstreams. I have no idea what the difference between these is, and which I "should" be using... but they require I use different functions and such, which means that following Farty's code would cause me as much trouble as just continuing from where I am.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 24 2009, 9:06 pm by EzDay281.

If you're writing C++, you should be using iostreams (as you are).
To read binary data from an istream you use its read() method