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    ifstream and nulls

    Sorry, this is probably a basic question but I've always used MFC for I/O. I'm using an ifstream and it stops reading as soon as it hits a null. I'm trying to read the end of a file. How do I get it to read everything and not stop at the null. Here's my code. Thanks
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      std::ifstream ifs;
      ifs.open(m_FilePath, std::ifstream::in | std::ifstream::binary);
      ifs.seekg(-2048l, ifs.end);
      char buf[2048];
      ifs.read(buf, 2048l);

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    Re: ifstream and nulls

    buf is sized at 2048, but 20481 chars are tried to be read??
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    Re: ifstream and nulls

    That's a letter l, not a 1. It works for files without a null, but stops where there's a null.

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    Re: ifstream and nulls

    Turns out because I'm reading into a char array, the debugger isn't showing anything after the null. The data is there though

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    Re: ifstream and nulls

    You could read it into a std::string as std::string can contain nulls. Something like:

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    std::ifstream ifs;
    std::string buf(2048, 0);
    
    ifs.open(m_FilePath, std::ifstream::in | std::ifstream::binary);
    ifs.seekg(-2048, ifs.end);
    ifs.read(buf.data(), 2048);
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