Micosoft Visual C++ 2010 Express writing to a file?

Hi guys,

Does anybody know how to write all output to a file please? But trick is I am using Micosoft Visual C++ 2010 Express. There must be an options somewhere? I've not used it very long and don't know how to do this.

Thank you

What do you mean - write output to a file?

I meant instead of all cout going to a console for them to go to a file, so that I can keep it and read again if necessary.

Thank you,

cout is made to, by default, output to the console. You shouldn't change that.
You should instead learn to use iostreams, ofstream to write to a file.

OK, I didn't know it was bad practice to do that, will keep it in mind.

Currently I am using an ofstream for 1 of the outputs:

Code:

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ofstream outputFile;
outputFile.open ("MSE.xls");
// code
outputFile << MSE << endl;
outputFile.close();

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But I also need to output a few other things to a file.
So can I output several things to different files like this:

Code:

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ofstream outputFile;
ofstream fileTwo;
outputFile.open ("MSE.xls");
fileTwo.open("weights.xls");
// code
outputFile << MSE << endl;
fileTwo << weight[i] << endl;
outputFile.close();
fileTwo.close();
// etc like this for several files to which I'd like to write

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Is that correct?

Thank you Elysia,

Yes, but you should also be able to shorten the code into this:

Code:

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ofstream outputFile("MSE.xls");
ofstream fileTwo("weights.xls");
// code
outputFile << MSE << endl;
fileTwo << weight[i] << endl;
// etc like this for several files to which I'd like to write

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Note that there is no need to close. The files will automatically close once they go out of scope. This is an important technique called RAII.

OK thank you! Will greatly help.
Kind Regards,