how to write to a file?

[Geoff Cox]

Hello,

In C# I can write

TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter("d:\\path\\file.txt");

tw.WriteLine("fred");

tw.Close;

What is the C++ equivalent for Visual C++ ?

Thanks

Cheers

Geoff

[William DePalo [MVP VC++]]

<Geoff Cox> wrote in message
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In C# I can write

TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter("d:\\path\\file.txt");

tw.WriteLine("fred");

tw.Close;

What is the C++ equivalent for Visual C++ ?

Equivalent at what level?

1) You can use the TextWriter and StreamWriter classes in Managed C++ and
with C++/CLI that is included in VS.Net 2005 if you tatget the .Net platform

2) You can also make use of the standard I/O streams classes in C++, e.g.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

fstream os;

os.open("c:\\test.dat2", ios_base::out);
os.write("fred\r\n", 6);
os.close();

3) You can make use of the Win32 I/O functions

CreateFile()
WriteFile()
CloseHandle()

Regards,
Will

[Geoff Cox]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:52:29 -0400, "William DePalo [MVP VC++]"
<wi***********@mvps.org> wrote:

1) You can use the TextWriter and StreamWriter classes in Managed C++ and
with C++/CLI that is included in VS.Net 2005 if you tatget the .Net platform
Will,

I guess I would like to use above approach but not at all clear how to
do it .... my effort below is clearly wrong for Visual C++ 2005
Express - can you please give me an idea of how it should be done?

private: System::Void endMessage() {

TextWriter outfile = new StreamWriter("h:\\a-temp1\\data.txt");

for (int i=0; i < LHSquestions->Length; i++) {
outfile.WriteLine(results[i]);
}
outfile.Close();

}

Thanks

Geoff




2) You can also make use of the standard I/O streams classes in C++, e.g.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

fstream os;

os.open("c:\\test.dat2", ios_base::out);
os.write("fred\r\n", 6);
os.close();

3) You can make use of the Win32 I/O functions

CreateFile()
WriteFile()
CloseHandle()

Regards,
Will

[William DePalo [MVP VC++]]

<Geoff Cox> wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:52:29 -0400, "William DePalo [MVP VC++]"
<wi***********@mvps.org> wrote:

1) You can use the TextWriter and StreamWriter classes in Managed C++ and
with C++/CLI that is included in VS.Net 2005 if you tatget the .Net
platform
Will,

I guess I would like to use above approach but not at all clear how to
do it .... my effort below is clearly wrong for Visual C++ 2005
Express - can you please give me an idea of how it should be done?

private: System::Void endMessage() {

TextWriter outfile = new StreamWriter("h:\\a-temp1\\data.txt");

The old MC++ syntax is

TextWriter *outfile = new StreamWriter("h:\\a-temp1\\data.txt");

The new C++/CLI (VS.2005) syntax is

TextWriter ^outfile = gcnew StreamWriter("h:\\a-temp1\\data.txt");
outfile.WriteLine(results[i]);
Try

outfile->WriteLine(results[i]);
outfile.Close();

Try

outfile->Close();

Regards,
Will

[Geoff Cox]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:56:32 -0400, "William DePalo [MVP VC++]"
<wi***********@mvps.org> wrote:

The new C++/CLI (VS.2005) syntax is

TextWriter ^outfile = gcnew StreamWriter("h:\\a-temp1\\data.txt");

outfile.WriteLine(results[i]);
Try

outfile->WriteLine(results[i]);

outfile.Close();

Try

outfile->Close();

Will,

Thanks for the above. I am getting a couple of errors ...

line 155 error C2227 left of '->ToString' must point to
class/struct/union/generic type
line 181 error C2228 left of '.Close' must have class/struct/union

I have following for initialization which I think is OK.
private: static array<String^>^ LHSquestions = gcnew array<String^>
{"question 1", "question 2"};

private: static array<String^>^ RHSquestions = gcnew array<String^>
{"question 1", "question 2"};

private: static int qnumber = 0;

private: static array<String^>^ results = gcnew array<String^>
[LHSquestions->Length];

and for the first error message

this->results[qnumber] = trackBar1->Value->ToString(); // line 155

and for the second error message

TextWriter^ outfile = gcnew StreamWriter("h:\\a-temp1\\data.txt");

for (int i=0; i < LHSquestions->Length; i++) {
outfile->WriteLine(results[i]);

}

outfile.Close(); // line 188

Any ideas?

Cheers

Geoff



Regards,
Will

[Geoff Cox]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:56:32 -0400, "William DePalo [MVP VC++]"
<wi***********@mvps.org> wrote:

<Geoff Cox> wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:52:29 -0400, "William DePalo [MVP VC++]"
<wi***********@mvps.org> wrote:

1) You can use the TextWriter and StreamWriter classes in Managed C++ and
with C++/CLI that is included in VS.Net 2005 if you tatget the .Net
platform

Will

I have found the cause of the 2nd one - I had outfile.Close() instead
of outfile->Close()

also found error in the other code but still get 2 similar error
messages

results[qnumber] = trackBar1_Scroll->Value->ToString();

(I had trackBar1 not trackBar1_Scroll)

error messages re above

error C2227: left of '->Value' must point to
class/struct/union/generic type
error C2227: left of '->ToString' must point to
class/struct/union/generic type

thought?

Cheers

Geoff

[Geoff Cox]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:49:07 +0100, Geoff Cox <> wrote:

results[qnumber] = trackBar1_Scroll->Value->ToString();

Solved! It should have been

results[qnumber] = trackBar1->Value.ToString();

Geoff