Thread: reading and writing to file

I have written a piece of code that is supposed to identify and record
all the text in between tags

(ie. <title> help please </title>

code would only record
<title> and </title>

I compiled and the compiler did not catch any errors.
I can open the file and create the output file, but then the console just hangs up
I am sure it is how I have my if loop worded, any help would be appreciated even if it is a look at this line!

this is the code that i am working with

Code:

	inFile.get( ch ); // this reads one character
	// notice this does not skip whitespace

	while( !inFile.eof() )
	{
		if (ch == '<')
                {

		//outFile << ch; // write this character to the output file
		//cout << ch;  // write this character to the monitor
		outFile.put( ch );
		cout.put( ch );
		inFile.get( ch ); // read the next character from the file
                outFile.put( '>' );
                cout.put( '>' );
                }

	}

thanks

Look at your loop. What happens if the character is not '<'?

Inside your loop, you only checked for occurences of '<' and didn't move the cursor to the next character if the '<' is not found. So the inFile won't get to eof because you didn't iterate to eof. So it will loop forever because the inFile's cursor will be the same every time it loops.

I don't really understand what you want to do with the program. But I guess this is what you wanted:

Code:

	inFile.get( ch ); // this reads one character
	// notice this does not skip whitespace

	while( !inFile.eof() )
	{
		if (ch == '<')
                {

		        //outFile << ch; // write this character to the output file
		        //cout << ch;  // write this character to the monitor

                       while (ch!='>')
                       {
		              outFile.put( ch );
		              cout.put( ch );
		              inFile.get( ch ); // read the next character from the file
                       }
                       outFile.put( '>' );
                       cout.put( '>' );
                }
                inFile.get( ch );

	}

thanks
that was not exactly it but it helped me see where my mistakes were
!!