Thread: problems printing out

hi, im trying to output my files contents in binary to a memo window in my program but im having some problems in the fact that it will only print out the first couple of bytes of the file into my window. I think the problem is that i need to create a loop through my buffer until it is empty (just a guess) but i did not know how to construct this. I added a line right near the bottom (commented out) which i thought would have done the trcik but it throws back an error saying i have called too many arguements.

If anyone could pass on any suggestions i would be very appreciative

thanks

Code:

TListItem * Item2 = ListView2->Selected;
if(Item2)
{
        /**************************************************************************/

         AnsiString text = Item2->Caption;
         TStrings * subItems = Item2->SubItems;

         AnsiString text1 = subItems->Strings[0];                      //  Getting the designated subitem names from table
         AnsiString text2 = subItems->Strings[1];
         int startPoint = text1.ToInt();
         int fSize = text2.ToInt();

        / ********************************************************************************
*/


      /*********************BUILDING THE FILES**************************/

AnsiString EvidenceFile =    Label2->Caption;                  //getting evidence file path from lable
              
char *buffer = new char[fSize];

ifstream myFile (EvidenceFile.c_str(), ios::in | ios::binary);


myFile.seekg (startPoint,std::ios::beg);


myFile.read(buffer, fSize*sizeof(char));


Memo1-Lines->Add(buffer);                     //adding the output of my file

//Memo1-Lines->Add(bufferf, Size*sizeof(char));                     THIS LINE WONT WORK, STATES TOO MANY ARGUEMENTS

   }

}

Make sure buffer is null terminated.

hi, thanks for the reply. By null terminated does that mean ending with '/0'. If so im not sure how I can add that to the end of my buffer as its filled by input from a file not standard input from myself, if that makes sense

It makes sense except for the can't do attitude...
Hey... real quick, what does Memo1-Lines->Add(buffer); do? Assuming that is supposed to be Memo1->Lines->Add(buffer); Then maybe the memo parser handles null terminating ('\0'ing) each line. But I would guess the line buffers are not null terminated.

i shall give it ago and see what happens! Could solve the problem I have as it seems to lock up now when it eventually does compile like its in some sort of infinate loop thing so hopefully this will solve my problem!

We'll see what happens.