Question regarding opening files

I'm trying to open a file to overwrite data on it but I'm getting some errors, here's my code

Code:

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        ifstream file("asdf.txt");
        fstream file2("qwerty.txt", fstream::trunc);

        if(!file)
                cout << "File not found";
        if(!file2)
                cout << "File not found";

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I was using the mode app, and it worked just fine, but I wanna overwrite on the file so I tried using trunc mode and I keep getting File(2) not found, help? :(

EDIT: I found out that I can overwrite by not adding a second parameter, but I would still like to know why trunc is not working

Edit: messaged in error.

Just using the out mode should truncate the file if it exists, and create it if it doesn't (I'm pretty sure)

ios::trunc has always worked for me. Besides, I believe if you don't specify a mode, it just creates the file anyway.

try dat..

Code:

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    ifstream file("asdf.txt");
        ofstream file2("qwerty.txt", ios::trunc);

        if(!file)
                cout << "File not found";
        if(!file2)
                cout << "File not found";

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by smasherprog

try dat..

Code:

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    ifstream file("asdf.txt");
        ofstream file2("qwerty.txt", ios::trunc);

        if(!file)
                cout << "File not found";
        if(!file2)
                cout << "File not found";

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+1
perfect solution

will work