From binary to text

[DerPflug]

Is it possible to read a binary file and write it to a text file? For instance, specify source and destination file names, read the source binary file, and write it as a text report to another file? All of this without displaying it on the screen. Thanks.

 

[sflam]

Not exactly sure what do you want to do. But it is possible to open a file in one format and write it in another format. However, there are a few notes

1. A text file only consist of a subset of all possible binary characters - all lower printable ASCII and some control characters.

2. Open the file in text mode causes the read/write operation to perform 'translation' when reading/writing the file. And the kind of translations are system dependent.

HTH
Shyan

 

[DerPflug]

I solved it this way:

do //read the file and print it
{
{
if(fread(&partrecord, sizeof(part), 1, source) < 1)
{
if(feof(source) != 0)
{
fclose(source);
break;
}
perror(&quot;fread&quot;
printf(&quot;\t\tThere was an error reading
the file.\n&quot;
fclose(source);
break;
}
fprintf(destination, &quot;%s&quot;, partrecord);
}while(1);