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Hello there, I created a text file of 4gb in which the contents are all spaces. Now I created program that uses fread for me to look inside the files, when I printed the buffer, I saw a different character which is not a space. Why is it that there is a different character?
it appears as the first character, I casted it to unsigned short so it gives me a number. The rest is the same value and the last one is different because of the end of line or null terminating or whatever that is. I was thinking that it could be a header for the text file. Is this possible?
The rest is the same value and the last one is different because of the end of line or null terminating or whatever that is.
Please provide some more information on how you made that big file full of spaces and please show the code that fread()s it. Also I think it is a good idea to make sure you know what a "null terminating" is when doing this kind of coding...
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I was thinking that it could be a header for the text file. Is this possible?
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