in_stream.get(char) question

ok i have a .bin file full of bytes, and i wrote a program to put the max product of 5 consecutive bytes in max. everything works good when i tested it however i reallized that its not reading everything. When i hex edited file.bin there is 10000 bytes and when i outputted all the products to a file for debugging i found only 4382 bytes searched through?
when i did "in_stream.get(next);" from the file.bin does it skip certain numbers like CR etc? is there another command to pull any value so i can get all the values from the file???

thanks

in_stream.read((char*)buffer, sizeof(buffer));

ok i just converted the program with that method however it is producing the same results heh.
is in_stream.read((char*)buffer, sizeof(buffer)); different from
in_stream.read((char),count); where as count =1 to get the next char into buffer[x] because char=&buffer[x]
i'm not really sure how to use the syntax you showed me :P

The (char*) is used to cast the var. that the data will be read into 1 byte, and the sizeof(buffer) is used to ensure that the correct number of bytes are read into the specified var.

As for "is in_stream.read((char*)buffer, sizeof(buffer)); different from in_stream.read((char),count); where as count =1 to get the next char into buffer[x] because char=&buffer[x]" I think so.

i changed to the syntax you showed me i think
in_stream.read((char),sizeof(counter)); char counter; char=&buffer[x];
however still when i do out_stream<<*char; it matches the file in the beginning however throughout the file bytes are still missing like they are not being read. only 4386 of the 10000 bytes are copied.:confused: