going crazy... wont write to filestream in loop!?

Okay I am going absolutely insane. I cannot figure out why this isnt working. I have other pieces of code just like it that work fine... but anyway here it is:

Code:

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tmpstrm.open("C:\\Tplease.txt");
if(!tmpstrm.is_open())
        MessageBox::Show("Not Open", "WTF", MessageBoxButtons::OK);
tmpstrm.clear();
tmpstrm << "This line writes!!!\n";
                       
int cnt = 0;

while (!read->Contains("(END)") && cnt < 500){
        read = gcnew String(connector.ReadFromPipe().c_str());
        connector.WriteToPipe("\r");
        To_string(read, output);
        //  PROBLEM HERE //
        tmpstrm << "This line wont write!?!?\n";
        cnt++;
}
tmpstrm.close();

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I know the loop is executing as I have stepped thru the code multiple times and have even output cnt as a test to see if its getting incremented. My goal here is to write 'output' to the file but that didnt work so I am now testing with a straight string and still nada. Help

Have you tried tmpstrm.write()?

Does your program have permission to write on that file?

yea i tried using .write() as well with the same results. Yes it can write to the file apparantly since it writes the first line, but once its in the loop nothing.

okay I changed some things around a little and I located the line that is screwing everything up, but I dont know how or why it should be having this effect.

Code:

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tmpstrm.open("C:\\test_log.txt");
                        tmpstrm.clear();                       
                        int cnt = 0;
                        while (!tmp->Contains("(END)") && cnt < 500){
                                connector.WriteToPipe("\r");
                                std::string output;
                                To_string(tmp, output);
                                tmpstrm << output;
                                tmp = gcnew String(connector.ReadFromPipe().c_str()); //PROBLEM LINE
                                cnt++;
                        }
                        tmpstrm.close();

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RedFromPipe() just returns a string from the pipe we are reading or "NULL" if it is empty. I dont understand why this would stop my program from writing to the file.

Perhaps the file stream has been set to an error state for some reason?

okay I did catch a failure, maybe you can help me understand why its failing here.

Code:

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To_string(tmp, output);
tmpstrm << output;
if(tmpstrm.fail()){
MessageBox::Show("Stream failure.", "stream write failed.", MessageBoxButtons::OK);
}

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I then put a break at the MessageBox show and when it hit that I checked the output string and it had this:

Code:

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ction Type          |  Sales  |  Tax  |  Total  | Count  | Check  |
|__________________________|__________|_________|__________|________|_________|
|Vending: Currency Cash    |    2.50 |    .  |    2.50 |    2  |    1.25 |
|_________

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If it helps any, this is coming out of a pipe from Plink (command line PuTTy for telnet). It seems like its getting other lines formatted similarly without problem. Do you think there might be some special character its catching which is screwing up the stream when I write it?
EDIT: Sorry I should also add that To_string() converts a System::String^ to a std::string since I guess you can use System::String^ in a filestream.

thanks

How about a flush?

Code:

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stream << "Data" << flush;

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Flushing the stream isn't going to get rid of the fail state. You'd need to find out why the stream entered a fail state to begin with.

The stream might not have been opened. Try .is_open() to see if it was opened. (I doubt writing to a stream that isn't open is a good idea.)