Name

fread function — Reads binary data

Synopsis

size_t fread(void* ptr, size_t size, size_t count, FILE* stream)

The fread function reads up to count elements from stream into the memory that ptr points to. The memory must have POD type (see Chapter 6). Each element is size bytes long. It returns the number of elements that were read successfully.

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