Reading from file.But only part of it.

Ok i've got some problem.I have function that saves array of class objects to a file using write function from fstream.h

Code:

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#include<iostream.h>
#include<fstream.h>
#include"Mapsqr.h"

void Newmap(char file[])
{
  ofstream fout(file,ios::binary);
  class Mapsqr Map[100][100];
  fout.write((char*) &Map,sizeof Map);
  fout.close();
}

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Now i want to read from that file but not the whole 100x100 array but only an smaller one let say 20 on 20 such that it would be elements from squer map[51][23] to map [71][53].

if i make it like this

Code:

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void Readmap(char file[])
{
  class Mapsqr tmpmap[20][20];
  ifstream fin(file,ios::binary);
  fin.read((char*) &tmpmap,sizeof tmpmap);
  fin.close();
}

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then tmpmap[0][0] will be element that was in map[0][0] but at tmpmap[1][0] i will have element that was map[0][20] not map[1][0].

so how to make it such way that tmpmap[1][0] will have same data as map[1][0]? How to tell program from where to read. Do i have to do such thing to get map[0][67] element or is there some way to tell program where to begin to read?

Code:

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void Readelementmap(char file[])
{
  class Mapsqr tmp;
  ifstream fin(file,ios::binary);
  for (int i=0;i<67;i++)
  {
    fin.read((char*) &tmp,sizeof tmp);
  }
  fin.close();
}

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One idea would be to use seekg().

Code:

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void Readelementmap(char file[])
{
  class Mapsqr tmp;
  ifstream fin(file, ios::binary);
  for (int i=0; i<20; i++)
    for (int j=0; j<20; j++)
    {
      //Read 20 Mapsqr
      fin.read((char*) &tmp, sizeof(tmp));
    }
    //Skip 80 Mapsqr
    fin.seekg(80*sizeof(tmp), ios::cur);
  }
  fin.close();
}

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Or you could read 20 Mapsqr at a time.

Code:

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  class Mapsqr tmpmap[20][20];

  ifstream fin(file, ios::binary);
  for (int i=0; i<20; i++)
  {
    //Read 20 Mapsqr
    fin.read((char *) &tmpmap[i], sizeof(tmpmap[i]);
    //Skip 80 Mapsqr
    fin.seekg(80*sizeof(Mapsqr), ios::cur);
  }

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Actually now that I've thought about it, you need some offsets also as you're reading. The code above was editted to calculate the offset. Hopefully I got them close to right.

Ok, I edited the code above again. Whatever you do, to skip Mapsqr's in the file, you can use seekg(). Or you can do what you suggested, and simply read one Mapsqr at a time.

Hmmm.thanks that sounds just fine.At the begining i was worry about not taking under consideration the size of Mapsqr when using seekg().Thanks a lot.I'll try it when i'll have some time :)

> class Mapsqr Map[100][100];
> fout.write((char*) &Map,sizeof Map);
..
> class Mapsqr tmpmap[20][20];
> fin.read((char*) &tmpmap,sizeof tmpmap);
If you're trying to read the 'top-left' corner of the map, then this is the wrong thing to do.

At best, you get the first 4 complete rows of the map you wrote out.