Re: [Boost-users] Reading a file with filesystem

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-30 16:57:44

AMDG

Simon Pickles wrote:
> Say I want to copy the contents of a file into memory, how do I do the 
> actual copy. Eg
>
>    boost::filesystem::path p = "file.txt"
>
>    const unsigned int filesize = boost::filesystem::file_size( p );
>
>    unsigned char* buffer = new unsigned char[filesize];
>
>    // how do I copy file contents into buffer?

You'll want to use boost::filesystem::fstream (in
boost/filesystem/fstream.hpp)

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe