I was thinking.....using I/O is there any way to save the information that a specific class creates for example on a disk and then retrieve that same information later......say if you were saying the records of a game......what key words should I look for if I want to find more info on it.
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FILE *, fscanf(),fprint(), etc if you want to use C style file handingl
fstreams, ifstreams, ofstreams if you want ot use C++ style streams.
Let's say I save a bunch of game information on example bert, josh or whatever, how would I get the right information for each person?
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Using the above information and the fread, fwrite functions, you can save whole structures if they have a fixed length. There is no nice way to index a file. Simply read all records and check for your ID.
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Using the above information and the fread, fwrite functions, you can save whole structures if they have a fixed length. There is no nice way to index a file. Simply read all records and check for your ID.
what do you mean check for my id....I have an example on my book on how to save and read from a file. I think it's something like file.write((char*) & Bear, sizeof Bear); this would write the characters of the class bears on to the file or whatnot. But I mean what do you mean by check for my ID?
fread() and fwrite() are the C versions of the read() and write() methods for ifstreams and ofstreams respectively in C++. They will read/write all data members of an object to file at one time. If one of the data members is an id of some sort then you can read the values in file one object at a time, see if it has the id you want, if so do something, if not continue to next objects data. You could read all data in file to a container and then search each object in the container (array, list, vector, map, whatever) for the desired id/value.
If the id correlates somehow to the offset of the objects data in file, then you could try using fseek() or associated file functions to go directly to that objects data in file and read it without "having" to search. In fact if you know the offset of the data member within the object you can probably go directly to the data value. But that is not something I have tried.
