Problem with functions...

[yaya]

I'm trying to pass an ofstream object to another function. This is my attempt here (simplified to what matters):

#include <fstream>

inline void FunctionTwo(ofstream Bfile)
{
	bfile<<"test";
}


main()
{
	ofstream Afile("test.txt", ios::trunc);
	functiontwo(Afile);
}

I have also tried pointers but they failed for me too (I'm not 100% comfortable with pointers yet). So how would I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance!

[nadroj]

it doesnt seem immediately obvious to me as to the error: what is the error/problem?

a small thing to note, is that your function declares the variable Bfile, yet you use <<operator on the variable bfile, but i imagine that isnt your error.

[laserlight]

The problem is probably that you need to pass the ofstream by reference, but you tried to pass it by value.

Aside from that your example code suffers from typos etc. Try:

#include <fstream>

inline void FunctionTwo(std::ofstream& Bfile)
{
    bfile << "test";
}

int main()
{
    std::ofstream Afile("test.txt", std::ios::trunc);
    FunctionTwo(Afile);
}

[yaya]

I fixed the problem, I changed it to this:

inline void FunctionTwo(ofstream* Bfile)
{
	*bfile<<"test";
}


main()
{
	ofstream Afile("test.txt", ios::trunc);
	functiontwo(&Afile);
}

Thanks for your help.

[laserlight]

I fixed the problem

Passing a pointer works too, but here passing by reference is more typical, and really, what you want to do.

Also, main() returns an int, so say as much.