Function binaryToText

SRC/handler/BinaryFileStream.cpp:589–686

int 
binaryToText(const char *inputFilename, const char *outputFilename)
{
  //
  // open the files
  //

  ifstream input(inputFilename, ios::in | ios::binary);
  ofstream output(outputFilename, ios::out);
  if (input.bad()) {
    std::cerr << "WARNING - BinaryFileStream - binaryToText()";
    std::cerr << " - could not open file " << inputFilename << std::endl;
    output.close();
    return -1;
  }
  if (output.bad()) {
    std::cerr << "WARNING - BinaryFileStream - binaryToText()";
    std::cerr << " - could not open file " << outputFilename << std::endl;
    output.close();
    return -1;
  }

  //
  // until done
  //   read input consisting doubles till \n and write to output file
  //

  double data;
  char *c = (char *)&data;
  int numNumbers = 0;
  /* ORIGINAL
  while ( !input.eof()) {
    input.read(c, 1);
    if (*c != '\n') {
      input.read(&c[1],7);
      output << data << " ";
      numNumbers++;
    } else {
      if (numNumbers != 0)
	output << "\n";
      numNumbers = 0;
    }
  }
  REPLACED WITH: */

  int nLF = 0;
  int intervalLF = 0;
  double aveIntervalLF = 0;
  int numCol;

  int dataLen = 0;
  int numRow;

  while (!input.eof()) {
    input.read(c, 1);
    dataLen++;

    if ((*c == '\n') && (intervalLF%8 == 0)) {