Just a quick one

[thes3cr3t1]

Guys how can i declare a varible of type char and then later in my program set the size of the char buffer to suite the size of the file being read into the buffer? C++

[Owner drawn]

LPTSTR pszFileText;//this is the buffer

//....Then somewhere else where you are reading in the file content

DWORD dwFileSize;

//reading the file size
dwFileSize = ::GetFileSize(hFile, NULL);

if(dwFileSize != INVALID_FILE_SIZE)
{
LPTSTR pszFileText;

//Take note you are allocating memory here
HGLOBAL hGlobal = ::GlobalAlloc(GPTR, dwFileSize + 1);

//lock memory
pszFileText = (LPTSTR)::GlobalLock(hGlobal);
if(pszFileText != NULL)
{
DWORD dwRead;
if(::ReadFile(hFile, pszFileText, dwFileSize, &dwRead, NULL))
;
//... rest of the code
}
//... if you don't need the contents of the file any more do this

//open the lock :)
::GlobalUnlock(hGlobal);

//free memory allocated
::GlobalFree(hGlobal);
}

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[Prakash Nadar]

char *p; latter calculate how much memory you want, p = (char*) malloc(size);

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-Prakash

[ToxickZero]

char* buffer;

int fileSize = WhateverToGetFileSize();

buffer = new char[fileSize];

DoStuffWithBuffer(buffer);

delete[] buffer;