File-splitting Function: Uses FILE * - better way with ifstream?

[Earl Purple]

This is a simple function to split a file into multiple files
(archives) of a fixed size. The last one will contain any remaining
bytes.

Here is the implementation:

#include <cstdio>
#include <fstream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <vector>

void split( const std::string & inPath, const std::string& outName,
size_t bufsize,
const std::string & ext=".txt" )
{
std::vector<char> buf( bufsize, 0 );

std::FILE* fIn = std::fopen( inPath.c_str(), "r" ); // may
sometimes want "rb"
if ( fIn )
{
size_t archive=0;

while ( size_t bytes = std::fread( &buf[0], 1, bufsize, fIn ) )
{
std::ostringstream oss;
oss << outName << std::setfill('0') << std::setw( 2 ) <<
archive << ext;
std::ofstream ofs( oss.str().c_str() );
if ( ofs )
{
ofs.write( &buf[0], bytes );
}
else
{
std::ostringstream osErr;
osErr << "Failure opening output file " << oss.str();
throw std::ios_base::failure( osErr.str() );
}
++archive;
}
}
else
{
std::ostringstream osErr;
osErr << "Failure opening input file " << inPath;
throw std::ios_base::failure( osErr.str() );
}
}

It works -you can add a main() to try it. The downside is the use of
FILE *. I know there are some who will say that there is nothing wrong
with using FILE * but the purists among us would prefer to use
ifstream.

The problem is that the equivalent ifstream.read() function returns the
stream, not the number of bytes. And if it fails to read the specified
number, it will enter a fail state. Even then I won't know how many
bytes were read (Would the buffer still be written?)

Maybe there is a way to do it using filebuf instead.
Anybody got a way to replace the FILE * with streams without making the
code overly complicated?

[TB]

Earl Purple sade:

This is a simple function to split a file into multiple files
(archives) of a fixed size. The last one will contain any remaining
bytes.

Here is the implementation: snip
It works -you can add a main() to try it. The downside is the use of
FILE *. I know there are some who will say that there is nothing wrong
with using FILE * but the purists among us would prefer to use
ifstream.

The problem is that the equivalent ifstream.read() function returns the
stream, not the number of bytes. And if it fails to read the specified
number, it will enter a fail state. Even then I won't know how many
bytes were read (Would the buffer still be written?)

Look at:

streamsize std::basic_ifstream::readsome(char_type *s, streamsize n);

TB

[Earl Purple]

TB wrote:

Look at:

streamsize std::basic_ifstream::readsome(char_type *s, streamsize n);

TB

Thank you - don't know why I haven't come across that function before.

[Stephan Brönnimann]

Earl Purple wrote:
[snip]

The problem is that the equivalent ifstream.read() function returns the
stream, not the number of bytes. And if it fails to read the specified
number, it will enter a fail state. Even then I won't know how many
bytes were read (Would the buffer still be written?)

Use ifstream.gcount() to determine how many bytes were read
with the last call to ifstream::read(...)

Stephan