Reading binary data...

hey you! how are ya i wish i could help ya, when i get home tonight if you are on i might be able to help ya i dunno.. but i do hope you get the problem fixed...sometimes binary files can be hidden or end up being weird characters that windows(assuming you are in windows) cannot understand so it skips the character altogether or it will subsitutue it i have found for some other weird "pac-man" or Q-bert character. anyway talk to you later tonight maybe bye...

Did you open the file with the binary mode flag set?

yes, ifstream file(filename, ios::binary);



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*cries*

You shouldn''t use the extraction operator on a binary file. Use the read method instead.

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Original post by Fruny
*cries*

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Why, am i doing something terribly wrong ? If so just tell it the next time. Anyway, this is something i learned a long time ago and it''s straight out of a book, so it isn''t totally wrong or something, no reason to cry.

Anyway i''ll try the read function.

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I''m just crying because I''m trying to solve the problem of "binary stream IO" questions on gamedev.net once and for all. You''re just the fourth (I believe) person to have problems with it in the past two days or so. Nothing wrong with you personally, and I know I should feel encouraged, but still, it''s sometime depressing to see that it keeps popping up.

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