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Oops, sorry. :(

The example code should have been:

#include "header.h"

{
ifstream infile("filename");
float *data, buff;
int size=0;

Your advice was very helpful. Thanks!

I just wasn't thinking about the fact that I was assigning a new pointer value to data inside the function that would be lost when it exited.

Here's an...

Hi,

I am calling a function that dynamically allocates memory for some arrays using new, and then fills the arrays with values. It is my understanding that once the function exits, the memory and...

Well, I don't really know. :(
When I open the file in Notepad, the last two lines contain no characters or spaces.

I ended up using infile.clear() after my while loop and before trying to...

My data file has two extra NULLs (blank lines) at the end. I am going to be dealing with a lot of these data files and this is how they come to me. When I remove the NULLs, the problem I described...

Okay, so by checking for when it failed I found that the file pointer is at 6311260, then it does getline, then it infile.fail() becomes true.

Sorry, for not doing this earlier, but I went to...

Thanks for your reply.

I'm using Borland C++ Builder 5.0 in Windows XP Pro.

Here's a sample:

char line[200];
ifstream infile("filename");
while(!infile.eof())
{

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I am trying to use the ifstream function seekg() to reposition a file pointer to the beginning of a text file. My code does not work when I use a text file that is about 6MB (which is the...