Thread: fstream question

I've tried strcat, but it wouldn't let me do it cause the 2nd peramiter needed to be a const char

string::c_str() returns the char* of the std::string

Hey, for what your doing, just use this:

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <string.h>

main()
{
	char x;
	string current; //change to string
	ifstream infile;

	infile.open("text.txt",ios::in);

	while(infile)
	{
		infile.get(x);
	current += x;
	}

	return 0;
}

This is the easiest way to accomplish the task you are doing.

when I did that, this is the errors I got:

Code:

"\readtxt.cpp(10) : error C2065: 'string' : undeclared identifier"
"\readtxt.cpp(10) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'current'"
"\readtxt.cpp(10) : error C2065: 'current' : undeclared identifier"

I did exactly what you did, any more ideas on what's going on?

sure did

So what was the problem? I'm curious.

All right, thanx. I'd really like to know.

When you're dealing with arrays to store data in almost any situation, a loop is always the answer. To quot from one of the greatest films of all time, the advice of Dr. Leo Marvin, Bob Wiley's, psichiatrist:
Baby steps. Don't think of how you're going to get out of this building, concentrate on how you're going to get out of this room. And once you're in the hall, deal with that hall, and so on.

That's a funny movie..