Thread: How do you save to a text file?

Im making a small program, where you are asked questions, and all the questions and answers you give are recorded to a text file in the same folder.

I just started C++ yesterday, so I am pretty much a newbie. But if you could help me then thank you.

Cheers, I will look through it and work it out

Oh yeah, just another thing, how do you clear screen in C++...

I thought it was CLS?

Cheers for that link, all solved

I need a little help, I am making a small profile program, simple (but im new...) and when you enter the information of the questions it saves to a file called profile.txt, this is all fine.

But if you enter a answer with SPACES in like "Computers and Games", it will only record Computers and nothing else after.

How do I prevent this.

This is my code so far,

Code:

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <stdlib.h>

using namespace std;

char myname[100];
char myinterests[101];

int myage;

int main()
{
    ofstream myfile("profile.txt");
    
    if( !myfile.is_open() )
    {
        cout << "Error: Could not open output file." << endl;
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }


	cout<<"What is your name?"<<endl;
	cin>>myname;

	cout<<"What is your age?"<<endl;
	cin>>myage;

	cout<<"What are your interests?"<<endl;
	cin>>myinterests;

	system ("cls");

	cout<<"Your profile has been recorded to profile.txt"<<endl;

	cout<<""<<endl;

	cout<<"Your Profile:"<<endl;

	cout <<"Hello, my name is "<<myname<< " and I am "<<myage<< ". My interests are "<<myinterests<<endl;

    myfile << "Hello, my name is "<<myname<< " and I am "<<myage<< ". My interests are "<<myinterests<<endl;
	
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

lookup std::noskipws in your helpfiles.

Hmm, nothing. Confused

You can also use getline to get a line of text, including spaces. You must be careful when mixing getline and operator>>, though. Quick solution - add a cin.ignore() after each call to cin >> if you want to also use getline().

Originally Posted by Stoned_Coder

http://www.cppreference.com/io_flags.html

I only started CPP yesterday, so that link kind of confuses me?

Originally Posted by Daved

You can also use getline to get a line of text, including spaces. You must be careful when mixing getline and operator>>, though. Quick solution - add a cin.ignore() after each call to cin >> if you want to also use getline().

Simple answer: Use getline. It's a function from cin that reads in an entire line instead of stopping at the first space.

Extra Info: If you decide to use getline, but run into problems (like it reads in an empty string) when using it after cin >>, then be aware that you can call cin.ignore() after cin >> statement.

If you are confused, a specific question would be easier to answer. Make sure you've done a little research first.