Hi,

I need to read 4 bytes from file to form a 32-bit unsigned integer X. The first byte you read goes into the most-significant byte of X, the 2nd byte you read goes into the 2nd most-significant byte of X, the 3rd byte you read goes into the 3rd most-significant byte of X, and the 4th byte you read goes into the least-significant byte of X.

Here is the content of the file:

000000: 29 52 61 96 e1 bd 74 f9 1c d1 3c d6 6a 61 64 71 )Ra~~~t~.~<~jadq
000010: f8 41 8f 8d 55 de a1 b0 6a 21 8d 98 54 62 94 83 ~A~~U~~~j!~~Tb~~
000020: 6c 1b f4 5f 33 84 f2 e7 88 57 ce 98 31 29 08 5d l.~_3~~~~W~~1).]
000030: dd 14 25 82 52 c2 46 95 19 df f6 46 ae bf 54 d0 ~.%~R~F~.~~F~~T~
000040: c6 9a 47 79 5f 61 a4 3b e1 35 59 64 6f 08 67 1e ~~Gy_a~;~5Ydo.g.
000050: a9 9c 9a 05 dd a1 82 74 fc 66 16 38 c6 d7 0d 46 ~~~.~~~t~f.8~~.F
000060: 32 56 4b 3a d3 bf c7 da 2b 99 90 7c 8d cc eb b4 2VK:~~~~+~~|~~~~
000070: df bc 58 4b 12 62 c6 77 8d df 3b b0 f0 e1 5c 12 ~~XK.b~w~~;~~~\.
000080: 2d 53 ee 63 40 28 01 28 5a 48 6d 24 56 69 dc f2 -S~c@(.(ZHm$Vi~~
000090: ae 61 54 2e 65 8d b0 54 05 09 4a c2 2d 8f 9f d0 ~aT.e~~T..J~-~~~
0000a0: d6 09 12 3e e8 6a 45 0c c6 ac b6 8d 52 c8 1d 32 ~..>~jE.~~~~R~.2
0000b0: 59 81 51 7a e3 c9 7d df ab 03 28 6e 4a 2a 16 62 Y~Qz~~}~~.(nJ*.b
0000c0: b5 f6 a1 e7 79 99 70 b9 fe f0 28 c7 34 62 bd 10 ~~~~y~p~~~(~4b~.
0000d0: 70 dc d2 e8 8c 80 9a cc 6d 84 13 09 a7 0b ef 52 p~~~~~~~m~..~.~R
0000e0: 59 5b 97 0c 3d c2 aa ba da 11 89 5a 35 60 e4 74 Y[~.=~~~~.~Z5`~t
0000f0: a1 3d 28 34 81 63 2c d2 97 06 43 d1 cc b5 32 95 ~=(4~c,~~.C~~~2~
000100: b2 48 8e 4b 3c 10 7a d3 7b 09 fa bc b7 d9 2d c2 ~H~K<.z~{.~~~~-~
000110: 29 a8 90 b2 39 77 ec 3e f5 bd d4 52 dc 8c 8b 70 )~~~9w~>~~~R~~~p
000120: af f9 9f dd f4 ec 20 96 97 6a 47 2c bb c7 a4 32 ~~~~~~ ~~jG,~~~2
000130: 55 12 d9 05 d6 82 ed 6e 49 77 a6 42 b3 f0 08 b9 U.~.~~~nIw~B~~.~
000140: 2b 1d e3 71 6b 8d 74 29 88 1d c5 1b e9 50 26 0f +.~qk~t)~.~.~P&.
000150: 35 59 c6 b6 19 17 fe 8e a7 ba d6 2e 7a 21 d3 e3 5Y~~..~~~~~.z!~~
000160: 1c 70 ef 6a 2d a3 4f 6e fe 25 4a e1 38 67 85 ef .p~j-~On~%J~8g~~
000170: d6 a6 c7 bb ca e1 07 07 48 a0 24 a2 4f 90 08 39 ~~~~~~..H~$~O~.9
000180: f3 11 22 2b ed a0 50 3f 87 57 49 02 be 86 6f d9 ~."+~~P?~WI.~~o~
000190: c7 92 b6 eb 26 0a c4 b8 30 b6 08 f1 4b 02 43 ed ~~~~&.~~0~.~K.C~
0001a0: 2f 4b cb 0f 5e 1d a3 08 56 5f f7 54 db 40 6b 3d /K~.^.~.V_~T~@k=

Could anyone tell me how to do this???

Hi,

I need to read 4 bytes from file to form a 32-bit unsigned integer X. The first byte you read goes into the most-significant byte of X, the 2nd byte you read goes into the 2nd most-significant byte of X, the 3rd byte you read goes into the 3rd most-significant byte of X, and the 4th byte you read goes into the least-significant byte of X.

Here is the content of the file:

000000: 29 52 61 96 e1 bd 74 f9 1c d1 3c d6 6a 61 64 71 )Ra~~~t~.~<~jadq
000010: f8 41 8f 8d 55 de a1 b0 6a 21 8d 98 54 62 94 83 ~A~~U~~~j!~~Tb~~
000020: 6c 1b f4 5f 33 84 f2 e7 88 57 ce 98 31 29 08 5d l.~_3~~~~W~~1).]
000030: dd 14 25 82 52 c2 46 95 19 df f6 46 ae bf 54 d0 ~.%~R~F~.~~F~~T~
000040: c6 9a 47 79 5f 61 a4 3b e1 35 59 64 6f 08 67 1e ~~Gy_a~;~5Ydo.g.
000050: a9 9c 9a 05 dd a1 82 74 fc 66 16 38 c6 d7 0d 46 ~~~.~~~t~f.8~~.F
000060: 32 56 4b 3a d3 bf c7 da 2b 99 90 7c 8d cc eb b4 2VK:~~~~+~~|~~~~
000070: df bc 58 4b 12 62 c6 77 8d df 3b b0 f0 e1 5c 12 ~~XK.b~w~~;~~~\.
000080: 2d 53 ee 63 40 28 01 28 5a 48 6d 24 56 69 dc f2 -S~c@(.(ZHm$Vi~~
000090: ae 61 54 2e 65 8d b0 54 05 09 4a c2 2d 8f 9f d0 ~aT.e~~T..J~-~~~
0000a0: d6 09 12 3e e8 6a 45 0c c6 ac b6 8d 52 c8 1d 32 ~..>~jE.~~~~R~.2
0000b0: 59 81 51 7a e3 c9 7d df ab 03 28 6e 4a 2a 16 62 Y~Qz~~}~~.(nJ*.b
0000c0: b5 f6 a1 e7 79 99 70 b9 fe f0 28 c7 34 62 bd 10 ~~~~y~p~~~(~4b~.
0000d0: 70 dc d2 e8 8c 80 9a cc 6d 84 13 09 a7 0b ef 52 p~~~~~~~m~..~.~R
0000e0: 59 5b 97 0c 3d c2 aa ba da 11 89 5a 35 60 e4 74 Y[~.=~~~~.~Z5`~t
0000f0: a1 3d 28 34 81 63 2c d2 97 06 43 d1 cc b5 32 95 ~=(4~c,~~.C~~~2~
000100: b2 48 8e 4b 3c 10 7a d3 7b 09 fa bc b7 d9 2d c2 ~H~K<.z~{.~~~~-~
000110: 29 a8 90 b2 39 77 ec 3e f5 bd d4 52 dc 8c 8b 70 )~~~9w~>~~~R~~~p
000120: af f9 9f dd f4 ec 20 96 97 6a 47 2c bb c7 a4 32 ~~~~~~ ~~jG,~~~2
000130: 55 12 d9 05 d6 82 ed 6e 49 77 a6 42 b3 f0 08 b9 U.~.~~~nIw~B~~.~
000140: 2b 1d e3 71 6b 8d 74 29 88 1d c5 1b e9 50 26 0f +.~qk~t)~.~.~P&.
000150: 35 59 c6 b6 19 17 fe 8e a7 ba d6 2e 7a 21 d3 e3 5Y~~..~~~~~.z!~~
000160: 1c 70 ef 6a 2d a3 4f 6e fe 25 4a e1 38 67 85 ef .p~j-~On~%J~8g~~
000170: d6 a6 c7 bb ca e1 07 07 48 a0 24 a2 4f 90 08 39 ~~~~~~..H~$~O~.9
000180: f3 11 22 2b ed a0 50 3f 87 57 49 02 be 86 6f d9 ~."+~~P?~WI.~~o~
000190: c7 92 b6 eb 26 0a c4 b8 30 b6 08 f1 4b 02 43 ed ~~~~&.~~0~.~K.C~
0001a0: 2f 4b cb 0f 5e 1d a3 08 56 5f f7 54 db 40 6b 3d /K~.^.~.V_~T~@k=

Could anyone tell me how to do this???

//The value of the first four bytes would be:

byte0=0x29,byte1=0x52 ,byte2= 0x61 ,byte3=0x96

What have you tried? What did it give you?

I just know that the values of byte0,byte1,byte2 and byte3..
But please explain me how to fetch these values??

First step will be to read from a file. You can use fread for that.
http://irc.essex.ac.uk/www.iota-six.co.uk/c/i2_feof_fgets_fread.asp

Now the 4 bytes that you want to read will be in a character array.
The next part is to assign these bytes to form a 4 byte unsigned number. This code will get you started.... But you will have to modify it to fulfill your specification.

int main()
{
        int y=0;
        char* ip;
        ip=(char*)&y;

        *ip=10;
        *(ip+1)=11;
        *(ip+2)=12;             //We are accessing individual bytes of a 
                                        // 4 byte integer
        *(ip+3)=13;
        printf("%u %u %u %u\n",(ip),(ip+1),(ip+2),(ip+3));
        
         printf("%x\n",y);

        return 0;
}

I just know that the values of byte0,byte1,byte2 and byte3..
But please explain me how to fetch these values??

What have you tried? What did it give you?

Thanks for the reply.
Could you please explain why have you assigned 10,11,12 and 13 to ip??

What I am doing is:

unsigned int X=0;
 FILE *fp ;
         fp = fopen("rndfile.bin","r");

         if( fp == NULL )
         {
               puts ( "cannot open file" ) ;
               exit(1) ;
         }
	fread(&X, 4, 1, fp);

For the 3rd f'ing time, WHAT DID IT GIVE YOU????

And look up the fopen() function for the proper use of the 2nd parameter.

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