static StringBuffer inputTheFile(String fileName) throws IOException {
        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
        
        // we first read the characters into a char array
        char[] cbuf = new char[1000];
        
        // FileReader is a standard Java class in package java.io.
        FileReader in = new FileReader(fileName);
        
        // read() is an operation implemented by the class FileReader
        // it takes as a parameter a char array. It fills the array
        // and returns how many characters it put into the array.
        int count = in.read(cbuf);
        
        System.out.println("FileReader read in " + count + " characters");
        
        while (count >= 0) {
            // append() is an operation implemented by the class StringBuffer
            // This call appends the characters from index 0 to index count-1.
            buf.append(cbuf, 0, count);
            count = in.read(cbuf);
        }
        in.close();
        return buf;
    }

SimpleFileBuffer::SimpleFileBuffer( char* inFileName, char* outFileName )
{	
	//open the given files  
        in_file.open(inFileName,ios::in);                     // an ifstream object
	out_file.open(outFileName, ios::out);             // an ofstream object
}

void SimpleFileBuffer::DumpFileContents()
{

	char str[2000];

        // make sure the get pointer is at the beginning of the file
	in_file.seekg(0, ios::beg);

        // dump the file contents to the console
        while(!in_file.eof())
        {
            in_file.getline(str,2000);
            cout << str << endl;
        }         	
        
        // put the get pointer back at the beginning of the file
	in_file.seekg(0, ios::beg);
	
	cout <<endl;
}

        // put the get pointer back at the beginning of the file
  in_file.clear();
  in_file.seekg(0, ios::beg);