ifstream and ofstream

I'm reading this tutorial:
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson10.html

I have found this a little bit challenging. Can anyone expound to me what it means technically.
I'm a python programmer and would like to add C++ and take advantage of ctypes and also I learn myself.

Thanks for your help.

So, could you be a bit more specific as to which part of the tutorial you do not understand?

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Mats

How good are you with cin and cout? File streams are supposed to work pretty much exactly the same way.

In python it is as simple as:
fo = open("steve.txt")
for words in fo:
print words

it will print all words in text files. I was wondering how easy it is in C++ :confused:

Soma

Code:

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#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
  return(!(std::cout << std::ifstream("test.cxx").rdbuf()));
}

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Well, that is the equivalent of

Code:

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print open("test.cxx").read()

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in Python.

Use getline(input_stream_object, string_object) to read a line of input, just as you would do with cin.

Code:

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ifstream fin("test.cxx");
std::string line;
while (std::getline(fin, line)) {
    std::cout << line << '\n';
}

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Plus your help, this helped a lot
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files.html :cool: