I have a requirement to pad out some data in a binary file with the null charactor '\0' added every second or thrid charactor. Try as I may I cannot prevent the app from ignoring the null charactor.

I have tryed various castings and conversions without any luck.

pseudo code below shows what I have right now.

Code:

string data = "J\0O\0H\0N\0";
ofstream File;

file.open("c:\\somefile.dat", ios_base::binary | ios_base::in | ios_base::out);

file.write(data.c_str, sizeof data)

Only the first char 'J' makes it to the file followed by some junk equal to the sizeof data - the first char.



Many Thanks...

JohnD..

"put" will do what you want. However, as long as you give "write" the correct size, it should work also. Ie. Don't use "sizeof"

Boy that was a quick reply!

I have not tryed put yet but write does not work and I can see it writes J@somejunk to the destination file with a hex editor.

J..

The constructor has no way of knowing that the string is longer than the first binary 0 unless you tell it.

Code:

string data("J\0O\0H\0N\0",8);
ofstream File;
file.open("c:\\somefile.dat", ios_base::binary | ios_base::in | ios_base:out);
file << data;
//or
file.write(data.data(),data.size());