Thread: File Copying

First, define "nothing happens"... do you see any output at all?

The eof test should not be used to control the loop these things are problematic when used in such a way. Several versions of the get function return a reference to the stream/file that can be tested directly to determine whether or not a value was read from said stream/file. I would suggest something more like this for the copyfiles function:

Code:

void copyfiles(ifstream& copyfrom, ofstream& copyto)
{
    char date;

    while( !copyfrom.get(date) )
    {
        copyto.put(date);
    }

    return;
}