How can I read binary files?

[Bertv100]

Hi all,

As the title of this question already suggested, I would like to know how to read (and write) binary files (aka record files) using g++. I can already read and write text files using

ifstream

and

ofstream

, but, since these work with streams, they might have a little problem with special characters.

Thanks in advance! Regards,
Bert Vingerhoets
vingerhoetsbert@hotmail.com

http://student.vub.ac.be/~bvingerh/

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[chipperMDW]

You can open your stream with ios::binary ORed into the flag list to open files in binary mode.

That said, binary mode on a UNIX computer is no different from text mode. The only place it matters is on a Windows or Mac machine, where binary and text files are treated differently.