c++ Read *.bat file as *.txt

[Danne]

Hello. I have made a simple c++ program that can save websites into a bat file as strings. and another function with launches the bat file to open the websites.
(the code do alot more, but thats not important).
But I want my program to be able to read out what websites the bat file contains, and I havent found any way of doing this.
the important part of the Code:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

    while(true){
        
    string command = "";
    cout<<endl<<"Enter a command: ";
    cin>>command;
if(command == "addweb")
{
    fstream myfiletest("website.bat");
     ofstream myfile;
    if(!myfiletest)
    {  //if no bat file exist, I create one that starts with @echo off
    myfile.open ("webbsite.bat",fstream::app);
    myfile << "@echo off"<<endl;
    myfile.close();
    }
    string website = "";
    cout<<"please enter a new website: www.";
    cin>>website;
 
    myfile.open ("website.bat", fstream::app);
    myfile << "start www."<<website<<endl;
    myfile.close();
    cout<<"added www."<<website<<endl;
    website = "";
    

}
else if(command =="openweb")
{
    fstream myfile("website.bat");
    if(!myfile){
    cout<<"You have not added any websites. Type addweb to do so."<<endl;
    }
    else{
 system("website.bat");
           }
}
else if(command == "listweb")
{
//I would like to show a list of the websites in the *.bat here
}

}

}

An example of the bat file:

@echo off
start www.google.se
start www.geek.com
start www.hotmail.se
start www.xkcd.com

If you know how to do this I would appreciate the help.
And if its possible I would like to list the websites without the "@echo off" showing up.


PS: My english sucks.

[vitinho444]

im not sure but i think that you can check this tut:

YouTube - C++ Tutorial - 24 - Reading From a File


I think it will help you

PS: nice code xD

[Danne]

Thank you for that link.
I folowed the tutorial (with a few changes as I had the websites in different lines)
and it would list:

@echo off
start www.example.com

So I needed a way to get rid of both "echo off" and "start".
I managed to come up with a solution that probably isnt the best, but it works:

ifstream file;
    file.open("website.bat");
    if(!file.is_open())
    {
        cout<<"You have no websites. Type addweb to add some";
    }
    else{
   string text;
   file>>text; //this will store "@echo" in the string
   file>>text; //this will overwrite "@echo" with "off"
   file>>text; //this will overwrite it "off" with "start"
   while(file.good()){
    file>>text; //this will overwrite "start" with the website
   cout<<text<<endl; //cout the website
   file>>text; //this will store "start"
   }// loop it
    }

Works perfectly :P

[Elysia]

A word of advice: your indentation is poor.