Thread: How to read bit by bit in a file

My question is that


assume that you have a file with hundred's of 0's or 1's (binary)
example:
10010101010101101
10101010101010111
.......


Now I want to read one bit at a time from that file. Is that possible?
If there was a space " " in between each bits then Yes I could do it by

Code:

    
long long int dataDECODER[512];
int j = 0;
ifstream inBINARY;    
inBINARY.open("outBinaryFile.txt");
while(!inBINARY.eof())
    {
       inBINARY >> dataFILE[j];
           j++;        
    }

I cannot grab the whole data into an array (if there were to be no spaces in between) or a variable because the value in the file is too large.

What I am trying to do is reading each bit and use "Tree Branch" method for the Huffman.


So is there a way to do this?

I am looking at the examples of boost::dynamic_bitset. So far I am seeing that it sets or clear the bits.
How is that reading the data in the file.

I think you are right about reading char by char instead of bit by bit, but
how would you read each char individually?