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Ok, I am fairly new to iostreams, and this is just starting to get annoying...
I can't figure out how the crap to just copy one byte out of the file and into an array..

I can't figure out a way to get the total file size of the stream, or to read a single character *easily*

I mean, their is the get(), but that does formatting, and can be complicated with raw binary files, I don't need formatting, I just need the raw bytes!

hckr83 wrote:I can't figure out a way to get the total file size of the stream [...]

Seek to the end with seekg and then get the get pointer position with tellg.

I mean, their is the get(), but that does formatting.

It does not, see here. There is also a read function.