Re: file input problems (should be an easy question)

From:
"BobR" <removeBadBobR@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:47:30 GMT
Message-ID:
<SGEJi.590397$p47.209785@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>
<psy_berpunk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1190589419.077127.98040@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

hey, i'm trying to write a simple program to read gif87a non-
interlaced format with a single image-descriptor ---
I am using djgpp on windows xp.

Sounds simple enough, unfortunatly data in the format is arranged
primarily in single-byte unsigned integers.
So i've been reading them in a chars and casting them as unsigned
chars into an int.
No problem there, except that:
With cin, values of 12 and 13 are skipped.
With cin, in binary mode everything reads as 0;
with fgetc, fread, and fscanf values of 13 are skipped.
as u can imagine missing data really messes things up.

How can I read this file one byte at a time without having the
functions I'm using ignore important data?


#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <vector>
#include <iterator> // #include <stream_iterator.h>

std::ifstream PicIn( "MyPic.png", std::ios_base::in|std::ios_base::binary );
if( not PicIn.is_open() ){
     std::cout<<"\n ifstream open FAILED"<<std::endl;
     }

// pick one
{// 1
     std::vector<unsigned char> Image(
         std::istreambuf_iterator<char>( PicIn.rdbuf() ),
         std::istreambuf_iterator<char>() );
}// 1
// or:
{// 2
     std::vector<unsigned char> Image;
     std::copy(
          std::istreambuf_iterator<char>( PicIn.rdbuf() ),
          std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(),
          std::back_inserter( Image ) );
}// 2
// or:
{// 3
     std::vector<unsigned char> Image;
     while( PicIn.peek() != EOF ){
          Image.push_back( PicIn.get() );
          }
}// 3
// or:
{// 4 int
     std::vector<int> Image;
     while( PicIn.peek() != EOF ){
          Image.push_back( int( PicIn.get() ) ); // int() for illustration.
          }
}// 4

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