Newbie Question: Passing a File

Hello... I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to open a file in one function and write data to the file in another? Or is that considered bad programming?

My code is below. It has errors.

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>

void File1();
void File2( ofstream );

int main()
{


  File1();
  system("PAUSE");
  exit(0);

}

void File1()
{

  char FILE[65];   
  strcpy(FILE, "testfile");
  strcat(FILE, ".txt");
  ofstream fout(FILE, ios::out|ios::app);

  fout << "File1" << endl;

  File2(fout);

  fout.close();


}

void File2( ofstream fout )
{

  fout << "File2" << endl;


}

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No, there's nothing wrong with doing that at all.

void File2( ofstream );

This isn't the prototype you need though. I should be:

void File2( ofstream& );
and
void File2( ofstream& fout )

that should work ok (BTW, i haven't compiled and/or tested your code at all... it's just a suggestion!).

good luck!
U.

Thanks. That fixed it.

nope not bad, i do that myself, a function should be small and concise...

just make sure you pass by reference all the time.. you dont want to keep passing by value and wasting resource time