fstream.h problems

Which tutorial? It would appear that it is incorrect.

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It's . You'll also probably have issues with namespaces. Might be time to find another tutorial, or head over to the For Beginners forum and check the stickies for the recently started C++ teaching (requires you to obtain a textbook).

Σnigma

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1127.asp thats the tutorial.

Yeah, look like it's based on pre-standard C++ (over eight years old). Best advice is to skip it and find another tutorial.

Σnigma

Ah thanks. I have good news though. My friend looked at the code and just added the iostream file to it and using namespace std; and it works now. Still not sure what was screwing up but I think including the iostream file fixed it.

Thanks for the response.

=) (I can't wait to get started using files!! ^.^)

From the C++ FAQ Lite: What's the difference between and headers?

You probably want to be using a more recent tutorial like this or this.

I got IO working in my program, but when I try to store strings into a file, if they contain spaces, it only stores the first word. I know about getline when your reading a file. The user is inputting a string into a variable. The variable will then be written to the outside file. But when there are spaces, the sentence is not put in there because there are spaces. What can I do to fix this?

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Original post by SonicD007 I got IO working in my program, but when I try to store strings into a file, if they contain spaces, it only stores the first word. I know about getline when your reading a file. The user is inputting a string into a variable. The variable will then be written to the outside file. But when there are spaces, the sentence is not put in there because there are spaces. What can I do to fix this?

There are two functions named getline, and they do very different things. Sort of.

std::istream::getline is a member of istream, as the name indicates, and reads data into a character array. std::getline is a member of the std namespace, and reads data into a std::string. std::getline is cleaner and easier to use:

#include <iostream>#include <string>int main(){  using namespace std;  string line;  cout << "Enter a line of text. Feel free to include spaces, and don't worry about length\n> ";  getline(cin, line);  cout << "The text you entered appears below:\n\n" << line << endl;  return 0;}

Use std::getline and std::string. Because std::ifstream derives from std::istream, std::getline can be used on ifstream instances, too - you can use it to read from files.