hi,
fisrt, I would to thank you very much for your help. But I still want to know more about this class and how can I read data form file and write to it. And with this class I want to add item, delete item search for item. Please I need your help.

This might all be review for ya. If it is I appologize. Just trying to help.

Here is how you create a file.
fstream output;

output.open("file.txt", ios::out);
the ios::out allows you to take stuff from the file

output.open("C:\\storage\\file.txt", ios::out);
you need to use two \ when specifying the exact path, because when in quotes " " the backslash (\) is like a key word
for example cout<<"h\ti"; will put a tab between the h and the i.

output.open("file.txt", ios::in);
allows you to put stuff in the file

output.open("file.txt", ios::out||ios::in);
allows you to do both

string temp;
while(getline(output,temp))
cout<<temp;
The getline will get a line from output and store it in temp, because it is in the while loop it will go through the entire file.

ouput<<"the dog is in the house"<<endl;
this will allow you to put the string into the file.

output>>temp;
this will allow you to take 1 word from a file. (takes till it finds a space or tab, i beleive)

output.close();
this will close the file

remove("file.txt",);
this will delete the file from existance


Any other question, I will try to help
~Ronald

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I am trying to do something similar. i need to do a find and replace in a .txt file. can anyone advise?

thanks
BMc

once you read the file into a string, you can use the string.find(), .erase(), .insert(), and .replace functions

Dang! Resurrecting a 3 year old thread... To ask a non-question.

Please review Guidelines #1, #2, #5, #7 (emphasis on "in progress") which I assumed you already read at least once...

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