Thread: qusetion?

is seekg and seekp only used for veriables or can you use them for characters as well, if you can't is there a function that does the same type of thing.

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sorry i didn't ask the question properly i wanted to know if you could use the seekp and seekg functions to output characters or is it just used for variables. and i do apolagise as i am a newbie....

I'll repeat what was said earlier:

Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon

neither. They are used for moving to a new location in data files. see fstream descriptions.

The seekp and seekg functions are only used to move the put/get pointers within a stream. The functions you would use to perform actual output would typically be either the stream's insertion operator(<<), or the put member function. They can all be used with either a variable or a hardcoded value:

Code:

char c = 'A';
ofstream strm("file.txt");

strm.put('B');  // Writes the character 'B' to the stream
strm.put(c);    // Writes the character 'A' to the stream
strm << 'B';    // Writes the character 'B' to the stream
strm << c;      // Writes the character 'A' to the stream

ok soz,,thats much clearer,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,cheers