Binary File Input!!!

[wearyweary]

Hey everyone,

I need to read in wav files for a program I'm working on.. If someone could post an example of opening a binary file with read permissions, and creating a buffer to store the whole file in (they are quite small) I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks a lot,

Eric

 

[wearyweary]

wait... I found another post on the same thing...

here it is

thread205-38842

 

[rbobbitt]

One thing that I didn't mention in that post that I should have is that binary files are inherently non-portable, which is something anyone thinking of reading and writing the same file in different environments should take into account before deciding on reading/writing a file in binary mode.

This is due to endianness issues and the fact that implementations will insert padding bits in structs to force the members to align on certain byte boundaries. This is /very/ implementation dependent, so you could write a struct to a file in binary mode on one platform, use the same program and attempt to read the same file on another platform and get unexpected results.

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