quote: Original post by GoofProg
Do you think C is a crap language.. that hurts =)
Remember that C++ is only C +1.

i didnt mean that C sucks, just its standard libraries

quote: Original post by GoofProg
You can. A pointer will be allocated and will point to something or it''s a NULL value

A pointer will *not* be allocated, and an object *cannot* be NULL. The reason the previous code works is that streams define an implicit conversion to bool which gets invoked when performing a boolean check on the stream''s state.

Hopefully, the newbie gained from all this that all that should be in the dat file should be 60. Nothing else.

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Thanks to Kylotan for the idea!

Well let''s say, i had multiple variables that needed to access the dat file. Is there some special label you could put on the info of the dat file, so this one variable can take THAT specific data out of the middle of the dat file somewhere?

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In that case, your best bet is to use an .ini file and the Windows [Get/Write]PrivateProfile[String/Int] family of functions.

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Thanks to Kylotan for the idea!

I think that''s way over my head.

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Just put the values in a particular order in the file, and read them in that order.

Yes, but you can''t just take one variable and take a piece of data out of the middle of nowhere in your .dat file...

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No. File I/O is sequential. Get over it.

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Thanks to Kylotan for the idea!

*Sigh* Ok thanks.

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