I am trying to read a large binary file thought input redirection (stdin
) at runtime, and stdin
is mandatory.
./a.out < input.bin
So far I have used fgets. But fgets skips blanks and newline. I want to include both. My currentBuffersize
could dynamically vary.
FILE * inputFileStream = stdin;
int currentPos = INIT_BUFFER_SIZE;
int currentBufferSize = 24; // opt
unsigned short int count = 0; // As Max number of packets 30,000/65,536
while (!feof(inputFileStream)) {
char buf[INIT_BUFFER_SIZE]; // size of byte
fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), inputFileStream);
cout<<buf;
cout<<endl;
}
Thanks in advance.
If it were me I would probably do something similar to this:
const std::size_t INIT_BUFFER_SIZE = 1024;
int main()
{
try
{
// on some systems you may need to reopen stdin in binary mode
// this is supposed to be reasonably portable
std::freopen(nullptr, "rb", stdin);
if(std::ferror(stdin))
throw std::runtime_error(std::strerror(errno));
std::size_t len;
std::array<char, INIT_BUFFER_SIZE> buf;
// somewhere to store the data
std::vector<char> input;
// use std::fread and remember to only use as many bytes as are returned
// according to len
while((len = std::fread(buf.data(), sizeof(buf[0]), buf.size(), stdin)) > 0)
{
// whoopsie
if(std::ferror(stdin) && !std::feof(stdin))
throw std::runtime_error(std::strerror(errno));
// use {buf.data(), buf.data() + len} here
input.insert(input.end(), buf.data(), buf.data() + len); // append to vector
}
// use input vector here
}
catch(std::exception const& e)
{
std::cerr << e.what() << '\n';
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
Note you may need to re-open stdin
in binary mode not sure how portable that is but various documentation suggests is reasonably well supported across systems.