can someone please check this for logical errors?

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong in this project, but the values I'm getting don't ring true to what they should be (the value printed to the window should be 4, but instead i get like 22586 or something)

Code:

	ifstream fin(fileName, ios::in | ios::binary | ios::nocreate);

if(fin.fail()){
MessageBox(NULL, "UNABLE TO OPEN MODEL FILE", "ERROR", MB_OK);
return;
}
char x[50];

fin.seekg(0, ios::end);			//SEEK TO END OF FILE, STREAM OFF
long filesize = fin.tellg();	//GET SIZE IN BYTES OF FILE
fin.seekg(0, ios::beg);			//SEEK BACK TO BEGINNING
byte*buffer = new byte[filesize];
fin.read(buffer, filesize);			//READ STUFF FROM FILE INTO A BUFFER
fin.close();	
const byte * ptr = buffer;	
MS3DHeader *pHeader = (MS3DHeader*) ptr;
ptr += sizeof(MS3DHeader);

sprintf(x, "version: %d", (int)pHeader->m_version);
SetWindowText(hWnd, x);
Sleep(tts);

Do you want to traverse pHeader or ptr?

pHeader += sizeof(MS3DHeader);

Kuphryn

I meant to traverse ptr, the idea of this setup is to read everything into a buffer, then set up a pointer to that buffer so you can extract necessary data and increase the pointer to the next portion of the buffer. MS3DHeader is just the first thing in a list of data items that are in the file, but for reason it's not getting read correctly and it's ........ing me off

EDIT:
Do you know what the ios::nocreate bit does?

Originally posted by MSDN
Opens a disk file and attaches it to the stream’s filebuf object. If the filebuf object is already attached to an open file, or if a filebuf call fails, the ios::failbit is set. If the file is not found, then the ios::failbit is set only if the ios::nocreate mode was used.

I don't friggin get it