characters not found

[juice]

The first two characters of any win32 exe are supposed to be MZ, so when I try to search for these characters using the following code it should output 0 (zero), but instead it outputs "characters not found".
When I try the same thing using a C code it gives the proper output i.e, zero.

Can someone please tell me whats wrong??

#include<iostream>
#include<fstream>

int main()
{
	std::fstream file("linked list.exe",std::ios::app|std::ios::binary);
	if(!file)
	{
		std::cout<<"unable to open";
	}

	int i; char s[2];
	for(i = 0;;i++)
	{
		file.seekg(i);
		file.read(s,2);
		
		if(s[0] == 'M' && s[1] == 'Z')
		{
			std::cout<<i;
			break;
		}

		if(file.eof())
		{
			std::cout<<"Characters not found";
			break;
		}

	}
}

[juice]

Also can you please tell how can I open the file linked list.exe if it present on some other drive lets say c:, cause

std::fstream file("c:\linked list.exe",std::ios::app|std::ios::binary);

does not work.

[oogabooga]

Don't you need at least the std::ios::in flag (and possibly the out flag, although that may be implied by app).

[oogabooga]

To answer your second question, you need to put two backslashes in order to get one in a string \\ .