Reading binary file c

Active 2 months ago. Viewed 20k times. I want to write a program that opens the binary file and encrypts it using DES. But how can I read the binary file? LihO 39k 9 9 gold badges 93 93 silver badges bronze badges.

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Hello I am trying to read satellite CEOS format file which contacined all type of data like integer ascii,binary. I know structure of binary file. I am reading file according to structure but not able to display data. Is it require after reading data structure-wise to conver binary to decimal format?

I want to know how. All Rights Reserved. Home About. Binary files Binary files are very similar to arrays of structures, except the structures are in a disk-file rather than an array in memory. Binary files have two features that distinguish them from text files: You can instantly use any structure in the file. You can change the contents of a structure anywhere in the file.

The fseek function will move the file position indicator to the record that is requested. This entry was posted in C Tutorials. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.

Both comments and pings are currently closed. Tweet This! Hope that this answers your question! Mind though, each mode string can include the letter b to explicitly specify binary file mode, which can be interpreted by some non-UNIX systems that treat text and binary files differently. After the fopen returns the file pointer, we can call the fread function to read binary stream. The next two arguments specify the size and number of the data items that need to be read from the given file.