Reading in 4 bytes at a time

Question

I have a big file full of integers that I\'m loading in. I\'ve just started using C++, and I\'m trying out the filestream stuff. From everything I\'ve read, it appears I c

Answer 1

Is this what you mean? By the way, your code (and this) assumes native endianness of the data.

const int HRSIZE = 129951336;  //The size of the table
int dhr[HRSIZE/sizeof(int)];   //The table

int main()
{
    ifstream fstr;

    /* load the handranks.dat file */
    std::cout << "Loading table.dat...\n";
    fstr.open("table.dat");
    fstr.read((char*)dhr, HRSIZE);
    fstr.close();
}