Thread: Problem viewing text file

The code below is a sub-program of my program. The problem it only reads the first line of the text file, and want it to read it all, I think you have to use the nth -1, but not sure.

Also when viewing the text file, how do I get it just to show a certain amount of lines at a time ( 1 screen full), like DOS?

void ViewFile()
{
const char * managerfile = "c:\\mfile.txt";
clrscr();
char buffer[256];
ifstream managerfile (managerfile, ios::in);
managerfile.getline (buffer,100);
cout << buffer << endl;
getch();
fManagerMain();
}

You'll have to do something like -

int lines=0;

while(managerfile.getline (buffer,100))
{
cout << buffer << endl;
//pause every 30 lines
if(lines++%30==0)
getch()
}

It's should be possible to calculate the number of lines per screen, but the function required will be os/compiler specific.

Cheers Zen,
Does anyone know how to just view certain lines of a text file, for example lines 14-19.