Damn I/O!! ( HELP PLEASE! )

[fantastico]

thank you for all of your help! everybody!! now, fantastico, about the filen.size() is there a way to do that so that i actually get the stream size instead of name of file?

Taken from http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iost ... tellg.html :

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is.seekg (0, ios::end);
int length = is.tellg();
is.seekg (0, ios::beg);

[MadPumpkin]

thank you for all of your help! everybody!! now, fantastico, about the filen.size() is there a way to do that so that i actually get the stream size instead of name of file?

Taken from http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iost ... tellg.html :

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is.seekg (0, ios::end);
int length = is.tellg();
is.seekg (0, ios::beg);

will this work with what im trying to do? what im trying to do is, make it load the whole file in spite of what its size is

[fantastico]

Yea it should work like this:

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ifstream is;
is.open("filename", ios::binary);

is.seekg(0, ios::end);
unsigned int length = is.tellg();
is.seekg(0, ios::beg);

char* buffer = new char[length];
is.read(buffer, length);

It should load the whole file into that byte array buffer and I guess it will work as long as the file size fits into that unsigned int and there is enough memory for new to succeed.