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Okay, I am in a bind. I am trying to write steps to read in any type of file under windows. I am just beginning so I haven't really gotten into it yet. What are the differences between using filestreams supplied by the fstream library and using fread from the stdio library?
One is C and one is C++ :).
The only difference I've seen is that C++ is better/easier when reading/writing text files and C is better/easier when reading/writing binary files. But that's me.
Ok so I take it fstream is C and fread is C++ (fread must be C++ if it is a part of stdlib, right?). Is it true that if you know the format of the file then you can read in the binary and assign the appropriate parts to data structures? This is under windows btw (although it would probably work on other platforms). What I am getting at is you can potentially use any format that exists on your system if you know how to use it correctly.
Yeah, the only way a file is defined is by the program that opens it.
Does that even make sense? It's too early...:o
Yes I guess that makes sense, because until a programmer writes a program that uses all of those 1's and 0's it means nothing.
I am finding that with all of these 3d modeling programs you can actually open up the files in notepad or textpad or some editor and you can try and figure out what the content means.
This is really cool.