fread & fseek not advancing buffer

Neither fread nor fseek in my code advance the cursor position the file, whether I opened it as r or r+, and I (obviously) require the cursor to change to read past the first few bytes.

Code:

FILE* values;
fopen_s(&values,"values.txt","rb");
char bytes_read[2][4];

for(int min=0;min<2;++min)
{
	// read the bytes for the maximum value of the hack
	fread(bytes_read[min],2,1,values);
	// advance the file
	fseek(values,2,SEEK_CUR);
}

the 2s in fseek and fread are actually from another variable, but I substituted here for readability.

This code doesn't work for me.

Any help?

Edit: Nevermind. The file I was attempting to read consisted of: 27 0F 00 01 27 0F 00 01 ... so when I read two bytes I got 27 0F.. then it advanced the buffer by 2.. however, the fseek advanced the buffer by an EXTRA 2, which brought me to the next 27 0F. sorry

You say it doesn't work for you. How can you tell? What does it do for you?

Code:

for(int min=0;min<2;++min)
{
	memset(bytes_read[min], 0, sizeof(bytes_read[min]));
	// read the bytes for the maximum value of the hack
	fread(bytes_read[min],2,1,values);
	// advance the file
	fseek(values,2,SEEK_CUR);
}

Also... why are you asking C code on this forum? You could use fstreams for this as well.

> fread(bytes_read[min],2,1,values);
1. bytes_read[i] is 4, not 2
2. you ignore (at your peril) the return results of both these functions.

Not to mention the fopen call as well.

Remember, the _s is only safe if you actually have a clue.

I can't win... when I write code in a way that doesn't flat out give away an answer someone else just gives away an answer to the OP :-\ Anyway, hopefully you noticed when the memory was zeroed out that the garbage you were getting was because you were likely overwriting stuff that you were printing out.

got it. repetetive file plus bad code. sorry