Reading Binary Files
Post: #16
If you mean the technique from my original post where I included code, the major difference between my method and Fenris' is that with mine you have to make lots of calls to fwrite()/fread() (but you gain the advantage that you can branch the input code based on the values retrieved), whereas with Fenris' method you have to play with pointer arithmetic (but gain the advantage that you only need one call to fwrite()/fread(), but at the disadvantage that you lose the ability to branch based on values retrieved.)
There is of course no reason why you couldn't mix both methods, loading chunks of values and then inspecting the values loaded up to that point for whether to branch...
The above code is not particularly robust (i.e. calling GiveName() more than once will obviously leak memory, amongst other fun...)
There is of course no reason why you couldn't mix both methods, loading chunks of values and then inspecting the values loaded up to that point for whether to branch...
Code:
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#ifdef __cplusplus
};
#endif
class TestClass
{
public:
int m_lives;
char *m_name;
TestClass( void )
{
m_lives = 0;
m_name = NULL;
};
~TestClass( void )
{
if( m_name != NULL )
{
free( m_name );
}
};
void Save( void )
{
FILE *file;
if(( file = fopen( "sealfin.bin", "wb" )) == NULL )
{
printf( "Scream! And die!" );
return;
}
fwrite( &m_lives, sizeof( int ), 1, file );
/* Yes, I know I should probably check that the int has actually been written to the file, but I'm in a rush... */
int length = strlen( m_name );
fwrite( &length, sizeof( int ), 1, file );
fwrite( m_name, sizeof( char ), length, file );
fclose( file );
return;
};
void Load( void )
{
FILE *file;
int length;
if(( file = fopen( "sealfin.bin", "rb" )) == NULL )
{
printf( "Scream! And die!" );
return;
}
fread( &m_lives, sizeof( int ), 1, file );
/* ...and here I should be checking that an int has actually been read from the file. */
fread( &length, sizeof( int ), 1, file );
m_name = ( char* )malloc( length + 1 );
fread( m_name, sizeof( char ), length, file );
m_name[ length ] = '\0';
fclose( file );
return;
};
void GiveName( const char *p_name )
{
m_name = ( char* )malloc( strlen( p_name ) + 1 );
strcpy( m_name,
p_name );
return;
};
};
int main()
{
TestClass obj;
obj.Load();
printf( "\nlives: %d\n", obj.m_lives );
printf( "\nname: %s\n\n", obj.m_name );
obj.m_lives = 21;
obj.GiveName( "Mark Bishop" );
obj.Save();
return 0;
}The above code is not particularly robust (i.e. calling GiveName() more than once will obviously leak memory, amongst other fun...)
Mark Bishop
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