Thread: reading from a file, how

Ok. here is the deal. I am gonna make a program to automatically assemble an html file for me.

Is gonna make the header. Input the news from a text file, then fill in the rest of the page. Basically a quick and cheap way to get easy updates. Well, here is my problem. It works fine, but looks crappy.

i am using strings to read in from file to file. However, it does not read in whitespace and escape characters. I guess instead of strings i could use character arrays... any idea?

thanks

cow

my function looks a little something like this. very basic, but gets it done. i have a seperate function right now for each part that is going to be read and written.

int writehead()
{
ifstream infile("header.htmlv4");
ofstream outfile("page.html");
string in;
while(!infile.eof())
{
infile >> in;
outfile << in;
outfile << " ";
}
infile.close();
outfile.close();
return 1;
}

i can try but haven't used them in a long, long time. how long of an array should i read in at a time since the lines are of unknown length.

cow

its not the medium but the input functions your using,

try

getline( char* pch, int nCount, char delim = '\n' );

Code:

char line[1024];

while(!infile.eof())
{
    infile.getline(line,1024,'\n');
    outfile.write(line,strlen(line));
    outfile << " ";
}