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Cipher · Jun 15th, 2005, 4:42 PM

Ok I was reading "Sams: Teach yourself C++ in 21 Days" blah blah blah and I came across the section about using streams to read files. Soon after, I coded a CONSOLE(MS-DOS) Program to read a text file that I had typed. Here was the code in the book for reading files:

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  #include<iostream>
  #include<fstream>
  using namespace std;
  int main()
  {
  	char filename[80];
  	cout << "enter filename where txt file is kept.";
  	cin >> filename:
  	ifstream fin(filename);
  	cout << "File Contents:  "
  	char ch;
  	while (fin.get(ch)) /*Problem begins here..../*
  		cout << ch;
  	cout << "\n END OF FILE REACHED\n";
  	fin.close();
  	return 0;
  }

I enter the file name. Which would be "C:\Documents and settings\Cipher\My Documents\My txt\Weapons List.txt" and
then it justs displays a blank line and "END OF FILE REACHED" then closes when I press enter? So I suppose it's not reading the file contents, did I just miss something such as a syntax error or do I maybe have to specify the text file itself?

Any help would be apperciated.

Jun 15th, 2005, 4:42 PM	#1
Cipher Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: /home/cipher Posts: 123 Rep Power: 4	Using Fstream to read files Ok I was reading "Sams: Teach yourself C++ in 21 Days" blah blah blah and I came across the section about using streams to read files. Soon after, I coded a CONSOLE(MS-DOS) Program to read a text file that I had typed. Here was the code in the book for reading files: (Toggle Plain Text) #include<iostream> #include<fstream> using namespace std; int main() { char filename[80]; cout << "enter filename where txt file is kept."; cin >> filename: ifstream fin(filename); cout << "File Contents: " char ch; while (fin.get(ch)) /Problem begins here..../ cout << ch; cout << "\n END OF FILE REACHED\n"; fin.close(); return 0; } #include<iostream> #include<fstream> using namespace std; int main() { char filename[80]; cout << "enter filename where txt file is kept."; cin >> filename: ifstream fin(filename); cout << "File Contents: " char ch; while (fin.get(ch)) /Problem begins here..../ cout << ch; cout << "\n END OF FILE REACHED\n"; fin.close(); return 0; } I enter the file name. Which would be "C:\Documents and settings\Cipher\My Documents\My txt\Weapons List.txt" and then it justs displays a blank line and "END OF FILE REACHED" then closes when I press enter? So I suppose it's not reading the file contents, did I just miss something such as a syntax error or do I maybe have to specify the text file itself? Any help would be apperciated. __________________ And there was much rejoicing... Yay....

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