Transfer contents from C FILE to C++ stream [closed]
Question
Suppose I have a file opened with the C syntax
FILE* fp = fopen("whatever.txt", "w");
// Library function needs FILE* to work on
libray_function(fp);
// Now I'd like to copy the contents of file to std::cout
// How???
fclose(fp);
I would like to be able to copy the contents of that file in a C++ ostream (like a stringstream
or maybe even std::cout
). How can I do that?
Solution
Close it first.
fclose(fp);
Then open again
string line;
ifstream myfile ("whatever.txt");
if (myfile.is_open())
{
while ( myfile.good() )
{
getline (myfile,line);
cout << line << endl;
}
myfile.close();
}
OTHER TIPS
You've opened the file for write. You're going to need to close it and reopen it anyway, you might as well open it however you please (as an istream if you like). Then it just depends how much you care about performance. If you actually care, you should read it in chunks (at least 512 bytes at a time). If you don't care about performance you can read one byte, spit out one byte.
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