Is using fscanf when opening a file in binary mode bad? I can't seem to find anything reasonable on the Internet. I am trying to open and read a PPM file and I've found this, but I am not sure if using fscanf is okay? And using netpbm is not okay, yeah.
Reading this with fread seems like a pain.
The scanf and fscanf functions are for reading characters, e.g., "1234", and converting them from a string to an integer. But integers are not stored as stings in a binary file. The actual bytes of the integer itself are stored. These need to be read directly into an integer with fread.