2D arrays

I have a text file with "$" chars only in it, I need to put this file into a 2D array[25][50], then count how many $ chars there are in the file, and output file and count to screen, any clues???Please help!!

I may not understand the assignment, but here goes.

Code:

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#include <cstdlib>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstring>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  char lines[25][50];
  char *filename = "sample.txt";
  int num_of_lines = 0;
  int count = 0;
  int i, j;

  ifstream in(filename);
  if (!in)
  {
      cout << "Could not open file:" << filename << endl;
      return 0;
  }
  while (in.getline(lines[num_of_lines],50))
  {
      num_of_lines++;
  }
  for (i=0; i<num_of_lines; i++)
  {
      cout << lines[i] << endl;
      for (j=0; j<strlen(lines[i]); j++)
        if (lines[i][j] == '$')
            count++;
  }
  cout << "$ found:" << count << endl;
  return 0;
}

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Forgot to close the file. Add this before the "return" at the end.
in.close();

Or before the for-loop.

This works excellent if I save file as txt file, but my file is a .dat file and it wont read file, I can't find why? any suggestions.

Many thanx swoopy

Ah, no probs....got it working now.