Based off some info I found on one of the tutorials, I simply declared it above as:Originally Posted by grumpy
fstream out;
And it compiled perfectly, would that have been appropriate?
Based off some info I found on one of the tutorials, I simply declared it above as:
fstream out;
And it compiled perfectly, would that have been appropriate?
That depends on what you intend your code to achieve. If you want code that successfully compiles but fails to write anything to a file (that's what happens with a default-constructed fstream) then your solution is perfectly appropriate.
