lol that should have been obvious to me O_o. It worked Thanks!
next question: making the file name to open variable it irritating!
this is my current code just for BETA.
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <conio.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
char ch;
string s_fileIn;
int i_startOfLine=0,i_emptyCount=0,i_currLine=0;
bool t1=false,t2=false,t3=false;
cout << "file name to scan?";
getline(cin,s_fileIn);
ifstream FileIn("70271.txt");
ofstream FileOut("dump.txt");
FileOut << " File Dump for ()" << endl;
FileOut << "======================" << endl;
while(!FileIn.eof())
{
FileIn.get(ch);
if(i_startOfLine==3 && ch==',')
t1=true;
if(i_startOfLine==6 && t1==true && ch==',')
t2=true;
if(i_startOfLine==9 && t2==true && ch==',')
t3=true;
if(t3==true)
{
FileOut << "Line(" << (i_currLine+1) << ")=empty record" << endl;
i_emptyCount++;
t1=false;t2=false;t3=false;
}
if(ch==(char)10)
{
i_currLine++;
i_startOfLine=1;
}
else
{
i_startOfLine++;
}
}
return 0;
}
EDIT:
i cannot remember the process to taking user input and storing it in a string
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