Verilog read file of any type

[sherifsherif]

I want to read a file as binary. I don't mean that the contents are ascii characters for ones and zeros, but I mean i want to read a file of any type, picture, text or anything.
I have encryption core and want to read a file to test the block. The file can be a movie, text or any thing.
I tried $fgets function but if the read value from the file is zero, the function returns zero. I tried $fscanf function but somewhere in the file it returns 0 although Iam very sure the file still has data.
Thanks

 

[FvM]

Why don't you refer to the Verilog language specification? The said file functions are for formatted files and can't work for binary data. Use $fread() or $freadmemb().