Thread: Saving string to file problem

I'm trying to save a strings to file, each of length 12, and where each character in the string can be of any type char, even the nonprintable ones. I then want to be able to load these 12 characters later on in the program and place them into a new string of length 12. Is there a way to do this?

If I save the string to file normally and then turn around and load them into a new string, it doesn't always work unless all 12 characters are printable ones. Driving me nuts!

Are you using std::string or arraybased char strings???

Also how would the file contents be structured???

Code:

xxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxx

Like that???

Errrr.... I'm using strings from the string library. And the data is stored consecutively in the same line. What I have it doing right now which isn't working (I've tried other ways which didn't work either) is a for loop that reads in one character at a time like so:

Code:

for (int x=0; x<12; ++x)
{
    infile>>myString[x];
}

This works if everything is a printable character, but if its an unprintable it screws up.

Hmmm .... convert to bianary save as that .....then convert to ASCII while loading into a string?

Thanks, I decided to go a different route and I'm not saving chars anymore but instead 64-bit ints to binary. Works fine now!