How to get size of non ASCII formatted (char *)

[salehhamadeh]

I want to get a file and store it in a character array. The file isn't ASCII formatted so I can't use strlen(). Is there any other way to get the size of the array?

[suchuhui80]

you haven't told what format is .UTF8 ? UCS2 ? there should be some corresponding functions to get the length .

[Speedo]

If you're treating the file as one big chunk of data, just use fstream's methods to get the size before you read it.

std::ifstream file("somefile.dat", std:ios::binary);
std::vector<char> buffer;

file.seekg(0, std::ios::end);
buffer.resize(file.tellg());
file.seekg(0, std::ios::beg);

file.read(&buffer[0], buffer.size());

...

[salehhamadeh]

If you're treating the file as one big chunk of data, just use fstream's methods to get the size before you read it.

std::ifstream file("somefile.dat", std:ios::binary);
std::vector<char> buffer;

file.seekg(0, std::ios::end);
buffer.resize(file.tellg());
file.seekg(0, std::ios::beg);

file.read(&buffer[0], buffer.size());

...

Thanks for helping speedo. Now I understood that I have to use the file.seekg() to go to the end of the file and file.tellg() to get the size.