Thread: newbie question about i/o!!!!!!!!help!!!!11

Code:

//Listing 17.16 Opening Files for Read and Write
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	char fileName[80];
	char buffer[255];    // for user input
 cout << "File name: ";
	cin >> fileName;

	ofstream fout(fileName);  // open for writing
	fout << "This line written directly to the file...\n";
	cout << "Enter text for the file: ";
	cin.ignore(1,'\n');  // eat the newline after the file name
	cin.getline(buffer,255);  // get the user's input
	fout << buffer << "\n";   // and write it to the file
	fout.close();             // close the file, ready for reopen

	ifstream fin(fileName);    // reopen for reading
	cout << "Here's the contents of the file:\n";
	char ch;
	while (fin.get(ch))
		cout << ch;

	cout << "\n***End of file contents.***\n";

	fin.close();            // always pays to be tidy
	return 0;
}

I thought this code would open like a window or something and save whatever is in there to a file but it doesn't work!!!! What is wrong with this? I am just learning about that right now so I know this might sound stupid.

I see what you mean thanks......I am just learning this right now........so this is kind of hard for me.....Mr. Jesse Liberty does a really poor job at explaining this.......seriously........

Ok this is driving me nuts......how would you get this code to work

Code:

//Listing 17.16 Opening Files for Read and Write
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	char fileName[80];
	char buffer[255];    // for user input
 cout << "File name: ";
	cin >> fileName;

	ofstream fout(fileName);  // open for writing
	fout << "This line written directly to the file...\n";
	cout << "Enter text for the file: ";
	cin.ignore(1,'\n');  // eat the newline after the file name
	cin.getline(buffer,255);  // get the user's input
	fout << buffer << "\n";   // and write it to the file
	fout.close();             // close the file, ready for reopen

	ifstream fin(fileName);    // reopen for reading
	cout << "Here's the contents of the file:\n";
	char ch;
	while (fin.get(ch))
		cout << ch;

	cout << "\n***End of file contents.***\n";

	fin.close();            // always pays to be tidy
	return 0;
}

You know like actually opening a file and saving whatever it's in there.

Sometimes I hate Windows so freaking much.....Turn out the problem I was having was because I had to restart windows.......you know how windows sometimes stops responding to some commands? Yes that's what happened....so it wouldn't write the file because Windows was *****ing. If I had had a heart attack and died it would've have been because of microsoft. So anyways the way I found out is that I tried to open a window on yahoo's instant messenger and it wouldn't open so I said hey why not restart........................................... ..........