read from file byte by byte

[g i a n n i]

Hello Guys :)

Listen, I am currently on a school project and I need to make something the sort of WINZIP, and I have to start to read from the file byte by byte...

There is a predefined function to do that, right?

Please help me... Keep in touch...
Gianni

[Whiteknight]

well, it would help if you told us specifically what language you are using. but in general, any good programming language will have a function to read and write to a data file, so there has to be something.

[zachogden]

It seems that people really love to be vague! The last probably half a dozen new threads I've read have hidden details that could quickly produce an answer.

Making an ZIP program, eh? For school? Sounds like quite an undertaking. If it gets to a point where you would be interested in pursuing this even after it is "finished" tell us about, and register it as a SF project. Sounds cool.

[g i a n n i]

I'm sorry guys... I forgot to tell which language I was on :( That's just clumsy...

Thanks for the attention anyway...

The language is OCaml. I guess I kind of sorted the problem out... I guess the command is "input_byte" when you open a channel to the file you want to read from.

something like:
(...) let channel = input_byte thefile in (...)

Thanks guys... sorry if I didn't tell the language... blame it on the work ;)

Have a good one. Cheers.

[Whiteknight]

haha, it's alright. I've had those days where i was so frustrated by a problem, that i seem to forget everything except for a few specific details. I'm glad you got your program working though, i've always wanted to start learning a Functional Language like OCaml, but i never had the time.