'\r' signs misssing

I've recently noticed that if I use the tellg() function then it doesn't return the ammount of binary numbers in a file but the ammount of characters plus the '\r' signs.
This happens no matter if I use ios::binary as flag or not.
The problem is that if you then use read and put how long the file was into the second argument it doesn't add those '\r' by itself and still it demands them. All this put together means that you can't use this method unless it's a one line file.

Code:

int main () {
  char * buffer;
  long size;
  ifstream file (filename, ios::in|ios::binary|ios::ate);
  size = file.tellg();
  file.seekg (0, ios::beg);
  buffer = new char [size];
  file.read (buffer, size);
  file.close();

  cout << "the complete file is in a buffer";

  delete[] buffer;
  return 0;
}

Sorry, i don't really understand what you are refering to with 'binary numbers'...
tellg() seems to return the length of the file in char sizes (for char actually length in bytes, for wchar_t the length in bytes / 2).
In that view, a 110 bytes file contains 110 binary numbers, each one byte long and each representing a ascii character.

What length do you need ?

Both if I whant the characters and if I whant the length of the file in bytes.

You have that length in characters.
If you want the length in bytes, multiply that length by the length of one caracter:

Code:

size_in_bytes = number_of_characters * sizeof(ifstream::char_type);

okay, but I have to ask what wchar_t is? (I know I've seen it some where omnce before.)

For language sets that need more than a byte to represent a character, ie: Japanese