Thread: ifstream question, please assist!

have you included fstream.h

yes i have

its included, the only thing i can think of is that i'm calling it from a constructor.. but that shouldn't matter cuz the constructor is sposta build my data structure off the content in this file!..

i'm using multiple data files, i included this one in my second file, should i also include it in my main.cpp? i don't think that matters either.. lemme know!~

all the examples i see are of the format

Code:

ifstream in("FILENAME.TXT")

this isn't similar cuz mine is a strict string.. not an arbitrary file.. right?? how do i implement for my scenario?

thanks

>along the lines of no matching type for ifstream::ifstream<string &>
Is the variable you are passing to ifstream's constructor an object of the string class? If so then it won't work, the constructor takes a char * if I recall correctly, so you need to do something like this:

ifstream in ( fileName.c_str() );

-Prelude

yes it is of the "string" class.. so i'll try your method when i get back to my linux coding box.. thanks for the reply and i hope it works..

you da man.. works like a charm!