getline() special...

[FightingWolf]

Hey,

first of all sorry for my bad english, but I'm from Germany ;)

I found something special in the getline() function, I don't understand.

If I use the getline function in case of an Excel-sheet or an image - to get the image-data - the getline function breakes after a NULL termination ( \0 )

fstream oFile_e;

oFile_e.open("B AB.xls",ios::in );

oFile_e.getline (chTest, 100,'\n');

BAB.xls containes the \0 from position 9 to 12

chTest is after the getline function only filled up to position 9 ( after the first \0 )

--> no problem with the ios::binary mode. With this mode it's possible to read the whole data.

But if I write out some chars in a file and some of them are \0, I can read the whole data WITHOUT the ios::binary mode.

Do you understand that phenomenon?

[willakawill]

Hi. What is the \0 character you are referring to in the excel file? Is it a blank cell, NULL or zero?

[FightingWolf]

\0 = NULL

in hex = 0x00