Thread: Need help formatting data from a text file.

Alright, so here's what I have:

Code:

ifstream op1appt;
                                    op1appt.open("op1appts.txt");
                                    if(!op1appt.is_open())
                                    {
                                                           cout<<"Could not load file.\n";
                                    }
                                    else
                                    {
                                        system("cls");
                                        while(!op1appt.eof())
                                        {
                                                             op1appt.getline(op1adata,256);
                                                             cout<<op1adata;
                                        
                                        }
                                    }

The problem here is that its putting all the text from the file into one big long line. I need it to reflect the formatting of the file, meaning line 1 of the file goes to line 1 of the screen, so on and so forth.

I understand that the 'char' variable wont support the formatting, but what can I do to prevent having a seperate variable for each line? I've been looking all over for a tutorial on how to do this, and im sure ive seen it in the past, but i've come up dry.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Wow. Cant believe I didnt think of that before. Thanks.