Thread: A little help on File reading? Not a big prob :)

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    Angry A little help on File reading? Not a big prob :)

    Okay, so I'm making a decryption\encryption proggy.(only decrypts its own encryption for now). And I want it to enter the file, view the letters, and change them 1 by 1. Here's the code for doing it so far(yes I have defined how to get the file name):


    ofstream fout;
    ifstream fin;
    int i;

    fin.open(file);
    fin>>file;

    for(i = 0; file[i]; i++)
    {
    if(file[i] = "h")\\error occurs here
    {
    file[i] = "ô";
    }
    if(file[i] = "a")\\error occurs here
    {
    file[i] = "§";
    }
    }

    fin.close();
    return* file;




    it gives me this error: Cannot convert char[2] to char
    twice, i have marked it in my code. Plz tell me how to fix it. thx

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    This is not doing what you think it is doing.
    if(file[i] = "h")

    You want this
    if(file[i] == "h")

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    omfg

    lol i didnt even notice. thank you

    PS. im not a n00b at programming. I jsut didnt see it lol

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    well

    well there are still errors :/ four of em
    one for each file[i] = "s" and file[1] == "s" statements

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    I know..I do it all the time. That and and the while(true);;;;;;;;;; is 75% of my syntax errors

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    What is the error message?

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    error messages

    the errors were:
    '=' : no conversion from 'char [2]' to 'char'
    '==' : no conversion from 'char [2]' to 'int'
    '=' : no conversion from 'char [2]' to 'char'
    '==' : no conversion from 'char [2]' to 'int'

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    Thumbs up Switch!!

    Please use a switch case, I really seeing so many if statements..

    Switch (choice)
    {
    case 1:
    cout << "Something" << endl;
    break;
    case 2:
    cout << "Something" << endl;
    break;
    case 3:
    cout << "Something" << endl;
    break;
    default:
    break;
    }

    this looks much better!!

    Ignore this code, i didnt look to carefully at you´re code, this wouldent fit in to that 'case'
    Last edited by Vinterwolf; 03-19-2002 at 03:37 PM.

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    Try 'A' instead off "A"

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    wow

    it worked ty barjor

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    grahh

    now its not writing to the file!!

    ofstream fout;
    ifstream fin;
    int i;

    fin.open(file);
    fin>>file;

    for(i = 0; file[i]; i++)
    {
    if(file[i] == 'h')
    {
    file[i] = 'ô';
    }
    if(file[i] == 'a')
    {
    file[i] = '§';
    }
    fout<<file[i];
    fin.close();
    }


    fin.close();
    return* file;

    the file has "haha" inside it. When i use my program on it, i look at it and it still only says "haha"... *sniff* help plz?

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    sry to rush but..

    sry to rush but.. im in a real big hurry if anyone knows could they plz help?

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    Oh... and Vinter

    I suck at cases :/

    How would i make this into a working case statement:

    switch(file)
    {
    case useme[i] = 'a':
    useme[i] = 'ô';
    break;
    }



    if it sux that bad so as u dont get it... im making it so that if the letter that useme is on is a, it changes it to ô :P

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    Your code is kind of funny. First you should open the file, read the file into an array, then close the file. Then you do all your work within the array. Then when you are finished, you open another file, write to that file, then close it.

    Code:
    #include <iostream.h>   // For normal I/O
    #include <fstream.h>     // For ifstream/ofstream
    #include <string.h>        // For strlen() 
    
    int main()
    {
       char text[1024];   // Array to hold characters from infile
    
       ifstream fin("whatever.txt");   // Infile
    
       if( !fin ) 
       {
          cerr << "File could not be opened, sorry" << endl;
          return 1;
       }
    
       while( fin >> text )   // Put the textfile in the array
          cout << text;
    
       fin.close();   // Close the file (we dont need it)
    
       for( int i = 0; i < strlen(text); i++ )
       {
          switch( text[i] )
          {
             case 'a':
                // do whatever
                break;
             default:
                // do whatever
                break;
          }
       }
    
       ofstream fout("whatever2.txt");  // Open outfile
    
       if( !fout ) 
       {
          cerr << "File could not be opened, sorry" << endl;
          return 1;
       }
    
       fout << text;  // Write to file
    
       return 0;   // ofstream's destructor closes the file
    }
    Good luck. I think your encryption idea is kind of impractical though. Go on google and look at Casaerian Encryption (aka rot13) and try and make a program around that. It is much more practical. And then after that, look at XOR encrypting
    Last edited by biosx; 03-19-2002 at 04:59 PM.

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    Something like

    Code:
    switch(useme[i]) 
    { 
        case 'a': 
        {
            useme[i] = 'ô'; 
            break;
        } 
    }
    I think your file problem is because you don't close the infile before you open the out file and then you don't close the out file at all.
    Last edited by Barjor; 03-19-2002 at 04:58 PM.

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