Thread: files question

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    files question

    Hi, I nee to write program that will arange my text files.
    Every row in file is supposed to begin with '{'. If it is not the case then
    I need the row that begin with every other character to place in current line
    not write as new row. So in my result file every line should start with '{'.
    I think I manage to do this and test it on one file and it seems to work fine.
    I have three question:
    1. Is there a better nad more elgant way to handle this
    2. Do I have to close files.
    3. (Not connected with upper two) When I want to write something in binary file
    I open with something like this: ofstream ofs("name",ios_bas:binary);
    and want to write I use something like this:
    ofs.write((char*)&matrix[i][j],sizeof(double));
    My question is way is ti necessary to erite (char *) and what it means?
    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <fstream>
    #include <string>
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
    	char current[BUFSIZ];
    	char next[BUFSIZ];
    	int i=0;
    	ifstream in("Bow.sub");
    	ofstream out("BowlingPr.sub");
    	while(in.getline(current,BUFSIZ,'\n'))
    	{
    		i++;
    		in.getline(next,BUFSIZ,'\n');
    		if(current[0]=='{')
    		{	
    			if(i!=1)
    				out<<'\n';
    			out<<current;
    		}
    		else
    		{
    			out<<current;
    		}
    		if(next[0]=='{')
    		{
    			out<<'\n';
    		}
    		out<<next;
    		
    	}
    
    }

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    http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/smartfaq.cgi (refer level 2 I think that should give you good idea )

    Regarding your last question (char *) means "type casting " The concept is similar in C/C++

    http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/tut5-4.html
    This link should be very helpful for that other try googling for type casting in C++

    Hope it helps
    Nipun

    Nipun

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    Thanks for reply. I know what is casting but don't know why I need to cast to char * something that is other type. In this case matrix of double numbers

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