Hey CSounders,
I am trying to use a .pvx file created by pvanal to do some analysis in c++, but when reading the header, I am getting values different than the ones advertised. For example, when I try to look up the first two values of the header (which should in theory be 517730 for the value magie (a magic number) and 56 for headBsize (the header size)), I get 1380533760 and 1185205760 respectively. This leads me to believe that either the header is in a format different than what is listed on this website:

http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/resources/pvanal.html

or that there is a subtlety about the file that I am not getting. I am fairly confident, though, that the c++ code below is correct (meaning that it is in fact reading bytes 0-3 into a long integer followed by bytes 4-7 into another long integer) - I have used code similar to this for a fair bit of I/O and it works fine. Thanks!!

#include "iostream"
#include "iomanip"
#include "fstream"

using namespace std;

int main()
{
ifstream infile;
ifstream testfile;
char *inname = "/Users/mikesolomon/Mikka.pvx";

long magie;
long headBsize;
infile.open(inname, ios::binary);

infile.get((char *)&magie, sizeof(long));
infile.get((char *)&headBsize, sizeof(long));
cout << "Successfully read values from the file." << endl;
cout << "magie :" << magie << endl;
cout << "headBsize :" << headBsize << endl;

infile.close();
return 0;
}