Thread: text files

text files



is there anyway i can use textfiles i created in a program


because writing cout a bunch of times can get tiring...

I thought maybe I read your post wrong.

Anyway...


This is the method I learned, so far.

Use #include <fstream>

Declare variables like

ifstream fin;
ofstream fout;

You connect them to files with the "open" member function.

fin.open("file name");
fout.open("file name");

Close them when your done.

fin.close();
fout.close();

And you can do things like

fin >> variable; ect

A little code:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
static int spaces = 0;
using namespace std;
void edit_file(ifstream & fin, ofstream & fout);
int check_word(ifstream & fin, ofstream & fout);
int main()
{
    ifstream fin;
    ofstream fout;
    fin.open("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Stephen\\My Documents\\New Folder\\letter.txt");
    if(fin.fail())
    exit(1);
    fout.open("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Stephen\\My Documents\\New Folder\\letter2.txt");
    if (fout.fail())
    exit(1);
    cout << "Editing..." << endl;
    edit_file(fin, fout);
    cout << "Done." << endl;
    fin.close();
    fout.close();
    return 0;
}

I dunno though. That method might be bad...

lol i just posted your post in my edited post thanks by the way

:P

Originally Posted by lilhawk2892

ty so so much and why did you double everything ?one for c and one for c++?

?

You mean my headers?

no like
fin.open("file name");
fout.open("file name");

its almost doubled.

it looks like its fin = printf
fout = cout
c c++

Oh...fin and fout are just variable names. Use whatever you want. Its just what my book uses. And fin is of type ifstream, which you use to get input, and fout is of type ofstream, which you use for output.

which book my birthdays on the 28th and i cant get an ipod anymore so i wanna get some c++ books(among other things)

A book from the 80's i think lol. You better get something recent.

lol im thinking of c++ for dummies