im trying to pull a bitmap from a file and read off each pixel value (preferably RGB (0-256) but hex will work fine as well). i am very unfamiliar with bitmap coding and was wondering if someone could give me some C++ functions that would be useful. thank you.

Try searching for [search]Bitmap C++[/search]. The first 2 hits from Google should interest you.

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