File Access

[JKop]

How should I go about file access in a portable C++ program? I've had a
quick look through a reference and seen "fopen". Should I use that? Or has
it been superseeded, sort of like "printf" and "std::cout"?

What I want to do is open an ASCII text file, read some stuff, then erase
certain stuff from the file.
Thanks,
-JKop

[Moonlit]

Hi,
"JKop" <NU**@NULL.NULL> wrote in message
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How should I go about file access in a portable C++ program? I've had a
quick look through a reference and seen "fopen". Should I use that? Or has
it been superseeded, sort of like "printf" and "std::cout"?
Yes.
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

ifstream Stream( Filename );
or
for output
ofstream Stream( Filename );

if( Stream.is_open() )
{
Stream << "Data" << endl;
}
What I want to do is open an ASCII text file, read some stuff, then erase
certain stuff from the file.
Be careful on the windows platform. A '\n' is translated to carriage return
linefeed if you open your file without specifying the binary option (happens
even if you just write a static_cast<char>( 10 ) to the file)


Thanks,


Regards, Ron AF Greve -JKop

[Moonlit]

BTW:
here some link with more info

http://www.cplusplus.com

Regards, Ron AF Greve

"Moonlit" <news moonlit xs4all nl> wrote in message
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Hi,
"JKop" <NU**@NULL.NULL> wrote in message
news:rI*******************@news.indigo.ie...

How should I go about file access in a portable C++ program? I've had a
quick look through a reference and seen "fopen". Should I use that? Or
has
it been superseeded, sort of like "printf" and "std::cout"?

Yes.
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

ifstream Stream( Filename );
or
for output
ofstream Stream( Filename );

if( Stream.is_open() )
{
Stream << "Data" << endl;
}

What I want to do is open an ASCII text file, read some stuff, then erase
certain stuff from the file.

Be careful on the windows platform. A '\n' is translated to carriage
return linefeed if you open your file without specifying the binary option
(happens even if you just write a static_cast<char>( 10 ) to the file)

Thanks,

Regards, Ron AF Greve

-JKop

[osmium]

JKop writes:

How should I go about file access in a portable C++ program? I've had a
quick look through a reference and seen "fopen". Should I use that? Or has
it been superseeded, sort of like "printf" and "std::cout"?

What I want to do is open an ASCII text file, read some stuff, then erase
certain stuff from the file.

There are two complete *sets* of ways to access I/O in C++. The old way,
inherited from C, and a new way, which is more appropriate for C++. Calling
the new way "iostreams" may be definitive, it may not. A modern C++
compiler places the C headers in <cstdio>. It is more difficult to learn
than the C way, but is, in general, indisputably "better" once you get the
hang of it. The key part of "better" is type safety.

In general, you should not change or erase stuff in a file, you should copy
it to a new file, making the destination different in the changed stuff
area.

[Chris Theis]

"JKop" <NU**@NULL.NULL> wrote in message
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How should I go about file access in a portable C++ program? I've had a
quick look through a reference and seen "fopen". Should I use that? Or has
it been superseeded, sort of like "printf" and "std::cout"?

What I want to do is open an ASCII text file, read some stuff, then erase
certain stuff from the file.

In principle you can stick with fopen (the old C I/O way) or stick to
streams. It depends very much on your taste and probably the manipulation
you want to do in the file. I personally moved to streams a long time ago as
I find them simply much more comfortable as you can also implement the
respective operators for you classes.

Regards
Chris

[JKop]

> #include <fstream>

using namespace std;

ifstream Stream( Filename );
or
for output
ofstream Stream( Filename );

if( Stream.is_open() )
{
Stream << "Data" << endl;
}

Well if you use "ifstream" to input from a file and "ofstream" to output to
a file... how do you open a file for reading *and* writing?

Here's an example: You want to find the first occurrence of 'k' in a file.
Once you've found the first 'k', you want to delete everything after until
the next 'm'. Would anyone be kind enough to write a little code snippet
illustrating how... ? or perhaps point me to a webpage?
Thanks,
-JKop

[John Harrison]

"JKop" <NU**@NULL.NULL> wrote in message
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#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

ifstream Stream( Filename );
or
for output
ofstream Stream( Filename );

if( Stream.is_open() )
{
Stream << "Data" << endl;
}

Well if you use "ifstream" to input from a file and "ofstream" to output
to
a file... how do you open a file for reading *and* writing?

fstream

Here's an example: You want to find the first occurrence of 'k' in a file.
Once you've found the first 'k', you want to delete everything after until
the next 'm'.

That cannot be done. Open one file for reading, open another for writing.
Read everything from the input file, write only what you want to the output
file. Clsoe the files, delete the input file and rename the output.

This is how you do the 'delete something from a file task' whatever file
system you are using.

john

[JKop]

>> Here's an example: You want to find the first occurrence of 'k' in a

file. Once you've found the first 'k', you want to delete everything
after until the next 'm'.

That cannot be done. Open one file for reading, open another for
writing. Read everything from the input file, write only what you want
to the output file. Clsoe the files, delete the input file and rename
the output.

This is how you do the 'delete something from a file task' whatever
file system you are using.

john

Thanks!

Hmmm...

So I start off with "doggy.txt". I create a new file called "doggy2.txt".

I open "doggy.txt" with an ifstream, and then I open "doggy2.txt" with an
ofstream... right?

ifstream original("doggy.txt");

ofstream resultant("doggy2.txt");
would I then use:

original.get() until I find 'k', at which point I *stop* copying the
characters to my resultant, until I find 'm' and I start copying them again.

What are they ways of getting a char or a few chars? For instance, I open a
file and I want to check if it has "[Config]\n" at the start? How would I go
about that?
-JKop
-JKop

[John Harrison]

"JKop" <NU**@NULL.NULL> wrote in message
news:5v*******************@news.indigo.ie...

Here's an example: You want to find the first occurrence of 'k' in a
file. Once you've found the first 'k', you want to delete everything
after until the next 'm'.
That cannot be done. Open one file for reading, open another for
writing. Read everything from the input file, write only what you want
to the output file. Clsoe the files, delete the input file and rename
the output.

This is how you do the 'delete something from a file task' whatever
file system you are using.

john

Thanks!

Hmmm...

So I start off with "doggy.txt". I create a new file called "doggy2.txt".

I open "doggy.txt" with an ifstream, and then I open "doggy2.txt" with an
ofstream... right?

ifstream original("doggy.txt");

ofstream resultant("doggy2.txt");
would I then use:

original.get() until I find 'k', at which point I *stop* copying the
characters to my resultant, until I find 'm' and I start copying them
again.

Right.
What are they ways of getting a char or a few chars?
One char - get
A few chars - read
For instance, I open a
file and I want to check if it has "[Config]\n" at the start? How would I
go
about that?

getline? But I guess it depends on what you what to do if you don't find
"[Config]\n" on the first line.

john

[Richard Herring]

In message <rI*******************@news.indigo.ie>, JKop <NU**@NULL.NULL>
writes

How

On 14 September, you knew C++.
(http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...6%40news.indig
o.ie)

No further questions should be required. What went wrong?

--
Richard Herring

[JKop]

Richard Herring posted:

In message <rI*******************@news.indigo.ie>, JKop <NU**@NULL.NULL>
writes

How

On 14 September, you knew C++.
(http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...6%40news.indig
o.ie)

No further questions should be required. What went wrong?

The language, yes. Not the standard library. I haven't found a decent enough
book on it... TC++PL is far too cryptic.

-JKop