Thread: C++ save/load

Hello

I have data stored in variables in C++ I would like to be able to save that data to a text file and then load it again when it is required. Do you know where I can find examples of this as I have looked on google but found nothing?

Thank you ~J~

see the millions of posts here that discuss fstream c++ file i/o.

ofstream a.k.a. output file stream.
ifstream a.k.a. input file stream.

ex:

Code:

int var1 = 5;

ofstream dataFile;  // Declare variable.

dataFile.open("data.txt");  // Open a text file.

dataFile << var1;  // Output contents of var1 to data.txt.

dataFile.close(); // Close file.

int var2;

ifstream dataFile;  // Declare input file stream.
dataFile.open("Data.txt"); // Open the file.

dataFile >> var2;  // Store first value of the data.txt into var2.

dataFile.close();  // Close file stream.

There are many more advanced things too like getline(); etc.. The above example works like cin & cout

I am also interesting in file saving is it also possible to do this with several structs?

Is it also possible to create a text file for the data to be stored in rather than saving to a file that already exists?

Thanks.

Sorry for the newbie question but what do you mean by read and write in a certain way?

Ok thanks for that, I will have a go and writing it and post up what I get