How to read a file in multiple chunks until EOF (C++)

Question

So, here\'s my problem: I want to make a program that reads chunks of data from a file. Let\'s say, 1024 bytes per chunk. So I read the first 1024 bytes, perform various operati

Answer 1

You can do this with a loop:

std::ifstream fin("C:\\file.txt", std::ifstream::binary);
std::vector buffer (1024,0); //reads only the first 1024 bytes

while(!fin.eof()) {
    fin.read(buffer.data(), buffer.size())
    std::streamsize s=fin.gcount();
    ///do with buffer
}

##EDITED

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/basic_istream/read