Im able to copy the entire content of say file A to file B but the last line of file B end with several unwanted tttttt. I suspected the number of "t" is related to the number of line if read and written. Any advise will be greatly appreciated.

file A
[TEX]sdakodjskfjsdkfjasook
sample1. : 0987654321
ofjsdfjasfjsdkf
dflsdj

sample1. :[/TEX]

file B
[TEX]sdakodjskfjsdkfjasook
sample1. : 0987654321
ofjsdfjasfjsdkf
dflsdj

sample1. :ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ[/TEX]

My code;

char * fbuffer;
long fsize;
ifstream cpy ("sample.txt");
ofstream target (finaldir.c_str());
cpy.seekg(0,ifstream::end);
fsize=cpy.tellg();
cpy.seekg(0);
fbuffer = new char [fsize];
cpy.read (fbuffer,fsize);
target.write (fbuffer,fsize);
delete[] fbuffer;
target.close();

No. You are getting some garbage values.

To avoid this make sure last content of the file is '\0'.
simply write '\0' to end of the file.

You need to open the file in binary mode in order to prevent CR/LF translation.

char * fbuffer;
long fsize;
ifstream cpy ("sample.txt", [B]ios::binary[/B]);
...

Writing a '\0' at the end of file does not fix the problem.

Try this,

char * fbuffer;
long fsize;
ifstream cpy ("sample.txt");
ofstream target (finaldir.c_str());
cpy.seekg(0,ios::end);
fsize=cpy.tellg();
cpy.seekg(0,ios::beg);
fbuffer = new char [fsize+1];
cpy.read (fbuffer,fsize);
fbuffer[fsize]='\0';
target.write (fbuffer,fsize);
delete[] fbuffer;
target.close();[/B]

Thanks RenjithVR,

I will try it out when i get back to my desktop, currently on the run with my laptop.

Thanks mitrmkar,

I think i have missed the ios::binary out, i try it when i get back.

the simplest (and the most efficient) way to copy a text file (C++):

std::ifstream srce( inputfilename ) ;
  std::ofstream dest( outputfilename ) ;
  dest << srce.rdbuf() ;

if the escape sequence encodings are the same for both files (for instance they are on the same file system), you can squeeze a few cpu cycles by specifying std::ios::binary .

Thanks to all who reply,

I have used the ios::binary and its copied perfectly.

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