I am trying to read some data from a file but the file is in Hexadecimal and I'm really stumped.

I need to read "chunks" and at the beginning of each chunk there's a sort of header so that you can tell what sort of data the chunk holds.

I am completely clueless as to how to read hex because if you look at the file with a text editor it's a load of twaddle but then when I read it with a Hex editor it's all pretty understandable :3

Also, why do I often see hexadecimal accompanied by a 0x at the front; eg
0x4D4D.

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I just did a quick search and saw on wikipedia, if you go to:
Hexadecimal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The find:
Common Patterns and humor

There's a little on it there but whether its want you want i don't know? Seems to make sense to me.

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That's hex - 0xFFFFFF = White, 0x000000 = Black

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Hex isn't just colours I thought that too until a couple of months back when I was corrected.

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There's no such thing as a hexadecimal file - the hex editor is just showing you a hexadecimal representation of your data, which, like all electronic data, is stored in a binary form (The 0x prefix is a form of notation to denote a number as being in hex/base-16 ). You can either read a file as raw data, one byte at a time, or as text.

If opening it up in a text editor looks like nonsense, then you probably want to read it byte(s) at-a-time, into an unsigned char or array of unsigned char (Look up binary I/O in C++).
- What you do with the data after that is entirely up to you - it requires precise knowledge of the format within which the file has data stored to make the data meaningful, and depends how you wish the data to be stored & represented after you've read it from the file.

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