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initialize uint8_t array from txt file


I have, in a .txt file, a uint8_t array already formatted, like this:

0x4d, 0x5a, 0x90, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0x00,
0xb8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x40,

What I need is to initialize it from C++ like so:

static const uint8_t binary[] = { 0x4d, 0x5a, 0x90, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0x00, 0xb8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x40, }

Honestly, I'm a bit new at C++.


Solution

  • Is the .txt file storing the hex values as bytes, or as 4 characters representing the hex values with literal commas and spaces?

    If you're storing the actual hexadecimal values, the code becomes as simple as

    #include <fstream>
    #include <vector>
    
    // input file stream
    std::ifstream is("MyFile.txt"); 
    
    // iterators to start and end of file
    std::istream_iterator<uint8_t> start(is), end; 
    
    // initialise vector with bytes from file using the iterators
    std::vector<uint8_t> numbers(start, end);