- // 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; 
- } 
-