how can i read a doc file or xls file???

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2 comments, last by raulmtzsada 20 years, 11 months ago
this is what ive tried but cant get past the fourth character int main() {ifstream fp; fp.open("p9.doc"); char buffer; while(fp ) {buffer=fp.get(); cout<<buffer; }
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im just interested in getting all the character bytes in order to compress the file, but i cant read the whole file. It kgets to an end of file byte i suppose.
I presume p9.doc is an MS word file?

It might be returning bad characters (odd, but possible) which causes the stream to fail.

Try

fp.open("p9.doc",ios::binary);

yes its a word document, the same thing happened.

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