Use ifstream on a filebuffer as TCHAR*

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I am trying to use Hans Dietrich's great article on how to include a text file as a resource in a exe file, XResFile. I have previously used a separate file with ifstream,

ifstream datfile("datf.txt")

where I have overloaded the >> operator, which I would like to keep using. The problem is that the article describes the GetTextBuffer() which returns a TCHAR*. How can I convert this pointer to a ifstream object?

Thank you.

Haakon.

Posted 27-Jan-14 23:28pm

Haakon S.

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Aescleal · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-28T09:48:00

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You can't. ifstream is for files and only files. If you have a block of memory that you want to extract stuff out of then use std::strstream, with the caveat that it was deprecated in C++'98 and '03 and might have been removed in '11.

Posted 28-Jan-14 9:48am

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Haakon S. 29-Jan-14 2:30am

Thank you. I was suspection this. But I have found a way around it. I will make an extractor from the char array.

Haakon S. 29-Jan-14 4:17am

Hey, std::strstream seems to work smoothlessly! Thanks a lot! Problem solved.

Aescleal 31-Jan-14 14:05pm

Glad it helped!