Hello
I am writing a function to read a binary file. Here is a part of code
#include <fstream>
..
..
BYTE *pData;
long lDataLen;
pms->GetPointer(&pData);
lDataLen = pms->GetSize();
// Read one line at a time till end of file..
if (m_inFile.getline(pData,
lDataLen))pms->SetActualDataLength(strlen((char*)pData)+1);
else {return S_FALSE;}
...................
The error message that i get is this

error C2664: 'class std::basic_istream<char,struct
std::char_traits<char> > &__thiscall std::basic_istream<char,struct
std::char_traits<char> >::getline(char *,int)'
: cannot convert parameter 1 from 'unsigned char *' to 'char *'
Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires
reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast

Conflict in datatypes is causing this error. How can i solve this
problem? Which type of casting is better here and how it should be
used here.
thanks

"seia0106" <miahmed67@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4fe296bd.0307280854.7e7fa0cb@posting.google.c om...[color=blue]
> Hello
> I am writing a function to read a binary file. Here is a part of code
> #include <fstream>
> .
> .
> BYTE *pData;
> long lDataLen;
> pms->GetPointer(&pData);
> lDataLen = pms->GetSize();
> // Read one line at a time till end of file..
> if (m_inFile.getline(pData,
> lDataLen))pms->SetActualDataLength(strlen((char*)pData)+1);
> else {return S_FALSE;}
> ..................
> The error message that i get is this
>
> error C2664: 'class std::basic_istream<char,struct
> std::char_traits<char> > &__thiscall std::basic_istream<char,struct
> std::char_traits<char> >::getline(char *,int)'
> : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'unsigned char *' to 'char *'
> Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires
> reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
>
> Conflict in datatypes is causing this error. How can i solve this
> problem? Which type of casting is better here and how it should be
> used here.
> thanks[/color]

Why are you trying getline in a binary file? getline is for text files.

Anyway you can cast pData to the required type, one of the few common
instances where a cast is justified.

if (m_inFile.getline((char*)pData,lDataLen))

But the fact that you cast pData to (char*) twice, suggests that maybe you
would do better to declare is as char* in the first place. After all it does
appear to be text data, and char* is used for text.

john

Thank you for the reply.
The file is a text file. I have tried to do it the way you said but it
is still not working. In this function *pData must be declared as a
'BYTE'type. So how to use a 'BYTE' type *pData as a first parameter of
getline() method and in strlen()? The error is same that
"cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const char ** ' to 'unsigned char **
'"

I have looked into the text books for unsigned char type, char type
and signed char type but I am little confused about their differences
and uses.

thanks in advance


"John Harrison" <john_andronicus@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<bg3nk7$kp9sp$1@ID-196037.news.uni-berlin.de>...[color=blue]
> "seia0106" <miahmed67@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:4fe296bd.0307280854.7e7fa0cb@posting.google.c om...[color=green]
> > Hello
> > I am writing a function to read a binary file. Here is a part of code
> > #include <fstream>
> > .
> > .
> > BYTE *pData;
> > long lDataLen;
> > pms->GetPointer(&pData);
> > lDataLen = pms->GetSize();
> > // Read one line at a time till end of file..
> > if (m_inFile.getline(pData,
> > lDataLen))pms->SetActualDataLength(strlen((char*)pData)+1);
> > else {return S_FALSE;}
> > ..................
> > The error message that i get is this
> >
> > error C2664: 'class std::basic_istream<char,struct
> > std::char_traits<char> > &__thiscall std::basic_istream<char,struct
> > std::char_traits<char> >::getline(char *,int)'
> > : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'unsigned char *' to 'char *'
> > Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires
> > reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
> >
> > Conflict in datatypes is causing this error. How can i solve this
> > problem? Which type of casting is better here and how it should be
> > used here.
> > thanks[/color]
>
> Why are you trying getline in a binary file? getline is for text files.
>
> Anyway you can cast pData to the required type, one of the few common
> instances where a cast is justified.
>
> if (m_inFile.getline((char*)pData,lDataLen))
>
> But the fact that you cast pData to (char*) twice, suggests that maybe you
> would do better to declare is as char* in the first place. After all it does
> appear to be text data, and char* is used for text.
>
> john[/color]