Including spaces with an ifstream...

How might I use

Code:

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ifstream infile;
infile.open("filename.txt",ios:in);

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I'm trying to get the infile to read spaces... so...

infile.unsetf(ios::skipws);

That seems to just make it pause indefinately sometimes it crases with a runtime error... whats wrong with it?

Code:

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        cout << "What message do you want to decrypt?\n";
        infile.open("unencrypted.txt",ios::in);
        infile.unsetf(ios::skipws);
       
        strcpy(sInput,"\0");

        while (!infile.eof())
        {
                infile >> sBuffer;
                strcat(sInput,sBuffer);
        }       
        infile.close();

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What code are you using to read in the file? If you use read() then i don't think that will happen.

~Inuquirer

hmm... edited the code. does that help?

I don't know how to use read().

Basically, I want to copy the entire contents of the text file including all spaces, etc, into the character array (string) sInput.

Sounds like a buffer overflow.

hmm... that doesn't help me any :D ... there aren't very many spaces in the file, and it works perfectly if that one line isn't in it.

Perfectly if you don't count that this post ends up looking like this:

hmm...Idon'tknow...therearen'tverymanyspacesinthef ile,anditworksperfectlyifthatonelineisn'tinit.Perf ectlyifyoudon'tcountthatthispostendsuplookingliket his:

Code:

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        char sInput[1024];
        char sBuffer[1024];

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Come on... this has got to be simple and you know it!

FSTREAMTEST caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 017f:bff87ede.
Registers:
EAX=c00309c4 CS=017f EIP=bff87ede EFLGS=00010212
EBX=0067fe28 SS=0187 ESP=0057ff94 EBP=00580000
ECX=005801b4 DS=0187 ESI=8180660c FS=5737
EDX=bff76855 ES=0187 EDI=005801dc GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
53 56 57 8b 30 83 7d 10 01 8b 4e 38 89 4d f8 75
Stack dump:

I'm trying to use an ifstream and copy all the content into a character array, but it crashes the program if the line is in the code.

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...threadid=27536 has a more in depth thing, but that is going down and down on the list and you aren't supposed to bump it...

Like people said in the thread... use read() or getline()

char pszBuffer[256];
fileIn.getline(pszBuffer, 256, ' '); // read up to a space OR 256 chars;

or

fileIn.read(pszBuffer, 256); // read 256 characters

or you could try using setf(ios::skipws) instead of usetf(ios::skipws)

All right, I got that working, but how do I make it so that the strings will fit the contents of the text file no matter what? I.e. no fixed array size?

Just keep "fin >> next; sOutput += next; sOutput += ' ';" until fin.eof() is true. Keep in mond, sOutput has to be a string (the STL class). This would apso eliminate overflow, and allow better operator support (as you see).

~Inquirer

Easiest way would be to use the STL string class.
Otherwise, open the file, read every character one by one using the ifstream get function, and increment a counter at each one.
then you have a counter telling you how long the file is.
Make an array that long and read it as suggested before.

>>while (!infile.eof())
This is the wrong way to control your loop.

If you want to load the complete file into memory in one go, you could try read(), as already stated. There's a small example, of sorts, here. Basically, work out the file size, create an array big enough to hold that many bytes, and read() the file in.

And don't bump your thread again. If you want to change a previous post, use the edit button.

[edit]And now I've just merged your threads, having replied on the old one :mad: Don't do this again, or they may end up being deleted. Any problems/questions, feel free to PM me and ask.