What is this file?

[strych9]

I have a file that has a character then alternates with a null thru the entire file. When I open it in notepad i just see the characters next to each other no null or spaces. I see the nulls as squares in word if i open it that way. When i read the file i have to read it 1 byte at a time so that i can grab the character and skip the null, grap, skip and so on.

So i have 2 questions:

1. What kind of file is this and
2. Is there a better and faster way to read this than 1 byte at a time.

I am using CFile to read it right now.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thank you,

[cilu]

It is probably a binary file (as opposed to text files). Yes, you can read as many characters as you want at a time. Function Read() gets a pointer to a buffer and the size of the buffer. It can be any size you want.

[strych9]

when i do this:

CFile myfile;

myfile.open("C:\file.txt");

myfile.Read (pbuf,100);

It still gets the NULLs too and really messes me up when i try to move it to a CString. So what is the best way to read this? I need to remove the NULLs before i put the info into a DB.

Thanks,

[jeron]

Possibly a unicode representation?

[zapper222]

Try using CStdioFile::ReadString

[Lindley]

It's probably a UTF-16 encoded file.

[strych9]

can anyone give some code on how to read this?

Thanks,

[alanjhd08]

Hi,

You mention CString, so I guess you are using MFC.

Compile your application as unicode and it should work fine, use CFile::Read to read it into the CString.

Alan

[strych9]

where is the setting to compile as unicode?

[alanjhd08]

Hi,
Try this:
http://www.mihai-nita.net/article.php?artID=20060723a

or if that's not enough, this: :-)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define+unicode+Visual+studio



Best regards,
Alan

[strych9]

Thank you,

[strych9]

Well when i did that i got 51 errors on a program that was working? Any ideas?

[crasher]

Can you post the file? Or where can I find it? Maybe once I can look at it I might be able to help.

[Paul McKenzie]

I have a file that has a character then alternates with a null thru the entire file.

This sounds like a Unicode version of a file that used to be in a single-byte character set,

For example, a non-Unicode English text file that has been "Unicode-ized" will have the property you're describing.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie

[strych9]

what is the best way to read it?