Hi. I'm trying to read the contents of a file into my program but I keep occasionally getting garbage characters at the end of the buffers. I haven't been using C a lot (rather I've been using C++) but I assume it has something to do with streams. I don't really know what to do though. I'm using MinGW.

Here is the code (this gives me garbage at the end of the second read):

include

include

char* filetobuf(char *file) { FILE *fptr; long length; char *buf;

fptr = fopen(file, "r"); /* Open file for reading */
if (!fptr) /* Return NULL on failure */
    return NULL;
fseek(fptr, 0, SEEK_END); /* Seek to the end of the file */
length = ftell(fptr); /* Find out how many bytes into the file we are */
buf = (char*)malloc(length+1); /* Allocate a buffer for the entire length of the file and a null terminator */
fseek(fptr, 0, SEEK_SET); /* Go back to the beginning of the file */
fread(buf, length, 1, fptr); /* Read the contents of the file in to the buffer */
fclose(fptr); /* Close the file */
buf[length] = 0; /* Null terminator */

return buf; /* Return the buffer */

}

int main() { char* vs; char* fs;

vs = filetobuf("testshader.vs"); fs = filetobuf("testshader.fs");

printf("%s\n\n\n%s", vs, fs);

free(vs); free(fs);

return 0; }

The filetobuf function is from this example http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Tutorial2:_VAOs,_VBOs,_Vertex_and_Fragment_Shaders_%28C_/_SDL%29. It seems right to me though.

So anyway, what's up with that?