On storing tick data in binary files with C++

I find trying to lay out data files with the C++ IOStream stuff to be like pulling teeth. Good old fashioned unix read() and write() is much less painful, especially for binary formats. For text formats printf()/scanf() are king. But that's just me.

I'm sure that IOStream has a mode for sending and reading raw bytes. Use that.

 

not too much different than how you wrote to file:

Code:

double myData;
ifstream infile("data.bin", ios::in|ios::binary);
infile.read((char*)&myData, sizeof myData);

@bigD: like pulling teeth?... care to show a simpler version using read()?

 

Thank you prop seeker. Nothing wrong with the good ol' STL is there?