something extremely wierd

i have some code, and its for an ai program

in the program, the user types in a phrase. the prog loads a file with the list of phrases into a map, and displays the proper output.

for example, if the user types in hello, the program will respond by saying welcome

if the user types in something unknown, the program will ask for the proper response for the next time. it then loads it into the map and file

this is where my problem is

for some reason, it does not write it to the file or insert it in the map

im attaching the entire file so u can see if there is anything wrong with all the parts, or if there is some place i can improve something

i believe it is very basic, but i am not sure

please reply ASAP, because this is for school. if u cannot do it, please ask someone else to help, because this is very important

thank you for the help

write to a different file than you read from.

http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284351

but i have to use the same file, because it wont read the most updated list, it will read the commands already there, and the new commands will go to a different file, so it wont read them

actually u were rite

i used the same file name, but i made it two different objects

one an ifstream, and the other an ofstream, but both read/wrote to the same file

thanks