Newbie Mistakes

Hey guys. Its been a few months since i worked in console with the fstream functions and im doing something wrong. I'm missing something and i know its gotta be something stupid, but im wrong none the less. The program is new i just started it, the problem is in loading the txt file. The comments in the beginning explain the idea behind the program, and the output is at the bottom commented off.

I tried using another text file named test.txt that said "Hello im a test" and got jibberish also, but in the right amount of characters. Attached is the text file im using. Follow the commented instructions and place the txt accordingly. Many of u will probably be able to look at just the code and know what im missing.

Sorry for the lame problem.

Code:

/* Steven Billington [email protected] August 15, 2003 Program is used to check for valid entries in any Half-Life mapcycle.txt. Create a folder on your c:\ drive named Mapfiles and inside make a folder named Maps. Pick the mod you wish to test and paste its .bsp files into the Maps folder, and paste its mapcycle.txt into the main Mapfiles folder. The program will scan the Maps folder and mapcycle.txt and ensure no maps are in the cycle that arent in the maps folder. If it finds invalid entries it will remove them and store the removed entries into a log file in the Mapfiles directory. */ /* Preprocessor Directives */ #include "stdafx.h" #include <iostream> #include <fstream> /* Declare use of the standard namepsace */ using namespace std; /* Class: MAIN Descr: Contains the functions and variables for use in the program. On a larger scale there would be several classes, were only using one. Function: mapcycle Purpose: Used to load the mapcycle text file. Function: Compare Purpose: This function is used to compare the contents of the Half-Life map folder against the mapcycle.txt to ensure all entried are valid. */ class MAIN { public: void MAIN_openmapcycle(); void MAIN_Compare(); ifstream mapcyclein; ofstream mapcycleout; char fromFile; }; /* The function main defines the entry point for the application */ int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { /* To access the members of the class MAIN we need to declare an object of type MAIN */ MAIN MainObj; /* Call member functions */ MainObj.MAIN_openmapcycle(); /* Always return a value */ return 0; } /* Function mapcycle is a member function of class MAIN */ void MAIN::MAIN_openmapcycle() { mapcyclein.open("c:\\Mapfiles\\mapcycle.txt"); if (mapcyclein.fail()) { cout << "FATAL: Failed to MAIN mapcycle.txt!" << endl; } mapcyclein.get(fromFile); while (!mapcyclein.eof()) { cout << mapcyclein << endl; mapcyclein.get(fromFile); } } /* Output 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC 0012FDFC Press any key to continue */

Forgot the txt file:

Thats what i get for rushing. Thank you.

Just wondering, aren't you getting 1 character at a time and printing it out on a new line each time? Shouldn't you have a char array and then use getline() if you're going to be checking if each map is in the maps folder?

yea ive changed it. I'm feeding it into a string till '\n' is met, then passing to a function to scan and moving on to the next line. im stuck but ima look at it tomorrow b4 i post again.