From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: Reading binary files
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 15:46:15 +0100
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Chris wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I have a minor problem that probably has a simple solution that I have
> overlooked.
> 
> When reading in binary files, I need to know how to stop when reaching
> the EOF.
> 
> I know that stdio has a function fread but it doesn't check for end of
> file.
> 
> What I am doing is reading in numbers as shorts and need a function
> that can do that with a binary file and stop at the EOF.  How is this
> best accomplished.
Look at the info about fread.

  FILE *f = fopen("file.nam", "rb");
  while( fread( &myshort, sizeof(myshort), 1, f )){
     do_what_you_like_with(myshort);
  }

  
-- 
Ciao
Tom

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