// If you are not sure what some lines of code do, try looking back at
// previous example programs, notes, or ask a question.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main() {
	
	// Declare arrays of strings, ints, and chars to be inputted from 
	// the file
	string strings[5] = {};
	int ints[5] = {}, numInts, numChars;
	char chars[5] = {};

	// Declare variables to be used with our files
	ifstream fin;
	ofstream fout;

	// Open the file in the input stream - note you must include
	// the file extension (".txt").
	fin.open("File IO - Example - In.txt");

	// If we couldn't open the file, exit
	if(!fin.good())
		return 1;

	// The actual data begins after a colon character, so ignore all data
	// until after the colon.
	fin.ignore(1000,':');

	// Loop three times, inputting the strings from the file
	for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
		fin >> strings[i];

	// Ignore the data until another colon
	fin.ignore(1000,':');

	// Input the number of ints to input, and loop that many times. Note
	// that if this is greater than five, this will try to go off the end
	// of the array and create an error.
	fin >> numInts;
	for(int i = 0; i < numInts; i++)
		fin >> ints[i];

	// Ignore the data until another colon
	fin.ignore(1000,':');

	// Input characters until the file says it cannot input any more data.
	// Again, if this happens more than five times you will get an error,
	// as 5 is the size of the chars array.
	for(numChars = 0; fin.good(); numChars++)
		fin >> chars[numChars];

	// Decrement numChars, as it will have incremented one too many times.
	// When fin.good() returns false, numChars will have already been incremented.
	numChars--;

	// Close the input file, as we are done with it
	fin.close();


	// Output the data to the console so we can see the input worked 
	// correctly
	for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
		cout << strings[i] << " ";
	cout << endl;
	for(int i = 0; i < numInts; i++)
		cout << ints[i] << " ";
	cout << endl;
	for(int i = 0; i < numChars; i++)
		cout << chars[i] << " ";
	cout << endl;


	// Open the output file - note this will create the file it it does not
	// already exist. If it already exists, it will overwrite it.
	fout.open("File IO - Example - Out.txt");

	// Output the same results to the file.
	// The process is exactly the same, except using "fout" instead of "cout."
	for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
		fout << strings[i] << " ";
	fout << endl;
	for(int i = 0; i < numInts; i++)
		fout << ints[i] << " ";
	fout << endl;
	for(int i = 0; i < numChars; i++)
		fout << chars[i] << " ";
	fout << endl;

	// Close the output file, as we are done with it.
	fout.close();

	cout << endl;
	system("pause");
	
	return 0;
}