file saving with frog!!!

well the problem is simple, i don't know how haha
(i haven't got enough sleep bare with me)

alright i understand how to open/save/edit text based files
using C++, I have covered most basic tutorials on C++
directx, api, mfc, anything i can get my hands on
including networking(but that still needs work)

the one thing that i haven't come across is how to access
data from anouther file within the program?

i mean data not text based accual data like stored
variables or something from anouther file??

if that makes sense sorry if it doesn't

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how do i save a file at all?

be a little more specific. what are you trying to do? save your programs state in a file and then load that up and resume you prog. with the data stored in the file? thats a pretty simple task if you alredy know how to read/write to files and if the file is laid in an orderly fassion (i.e. you wrote the file how you wanted it or it follows a strict guidline set down in its formats if so go to http://www.wotsit.org/ and look around at the different formats.

OK, I'm only thinking that this is your problem: Saving file to specified location:

Code:

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//Be Sure to include fstream.h!

ofstream save;

save.open("C:\savedfile.txt");
save<<"Hello";
save.close();

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Opening a file from a specified location:

Code:

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//Be Sure to include fstream.h!

ifstream open;

open.open("C:\savedfile.txt");
if(open.fail())
{
cout<<"file opening has failed.";
}
open.close();

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I'm only assuming that that was your problem...I hope it helped.

ok
i am wondering how i would save cetain information
into a file *.whatever. things such as variables.
then i could load these variables back into memory and
manipulate them.
i think it would be in binary format like a binary tree or
something like that. i hope that is a little more clear

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i am wondering how i would save cetain information into a file *.whatever. things such as variables then i could load these variables back into memory and manipulate them.

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Those two sentences make me think that you dont even know how to read from a file. If you do then this should be a no brainer, you wrote the file so you know how its laid out, just write some code to read in the data and assign it to your variables.

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Originally posted by civix

save.open("C:\savedfile.txt");
open.open("C:\savedfile.txt");

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Important : You have to specify double backslashes in order to generate one backslash.
The string should be: "C:\\savedfile.txt"