$fread to read the text file into an array.

Hi,

I need some help with file read. Here's the problem statement.

I want to read an file at runtime which will give me the size of the image and the actual data into an dynamic array, imgData.
I tried to use the code below, but i get the wrong result.

Can i use $readmemh system tasks to perform the same operation? This should give me the exact file size and i don't want an arbitrary size array, since i'll be packing the data and passing it over an interface.


  int imgSize, status;
  rand image_type imgType;
  reg [7:0] imgData [];


  task read_image;
    integer file, start, count;
    reg [7:0] mem[0:200_000] ;
    begin
        case (imgType)
       YUV422 : begin
                file = $fopen("YUV422.txt","rb");
                if (file != 0) begin
                   $display("Error Opening YUV422 File.");
                 $finish;
                 end // if (file
                imgSize = $fread(mem,file);
                imgData = new[imgSize] (mem);
                $display("Number of Elements in Image = ",imgSize);
                for(int i=0; i
                    $display("Data at Locatin [%h] is %h", i, imgData[i]);
                $fclose(file);
         default: $display("No Where!");
         endcase
      end
endtask