Writing to a file.

[Jajjo]

I have an odd problem.

m_myStream.open("Highscores.txt", ios_base::out);
 
    if (m_myStream.is_open())
    {
        m_myStream << "Hello";
    }
 
    m_myStream.close();

This code doesn't work for me.

m_myStream is declared as an fstream. Is there any special rule about when and/or where you can call these write functions? It's odd because the all it is doing is erasing whatever is in the document and not writing anything.

I've tried it with an ofstream too, but taht didn't work either.

Am I not seeing something glaringly obvious?

[Jajjo]

Ugh. I always do this.

Work for a couple hours on something, ask here how to fic it, then fix it straight away.

It now works with ofstream... but not fstream... I'm not sure why that's happening.

[Rafael Justo]

The following code is going to overwrite any existing file called "file.txt".

#include <fstream>
using std::ofstream;
using std::endl;
 
ofstream fileStream("file.txt");
if (fileStream.good() == true) {
  fileStream << "This is a test message!" << endl;
  fileStream.close();
}