Is there a reference online where I can read up on file handleing? I am creating a address book and I want to save all my contacts to a dat file or something. I also want to be able to call up contacts to be viewed. Thanks

Sounds like you only need a simple text-based file format => simple fprintf() / fscanf() should do quite well...

If you want an advanced solution, then think about using XML - there are some nice and easy to use parsers available (Xerxes for example)...

What language are you using? For C++, I recommend fstream(library). For output you would make an output object, like so: ofstream outdata//o in ofstream for ''output'' ** outdata can be anything!

outdata("file1.dat") //blah

Like so. Or for input:

ifstream indata//anything for indata acceptable

indata("file1.dat")

Although this way is my favorite, I''ve heard of other ways of file handling in C++.


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What would I use to pull out a block of data? Like, I only want to display a contact at a time... Should I use ''read'' or ''readsome'' from the fstream? And how would I code it so it finds the contact and its info. that the user desires to view?

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I''m not sure, but I''ve heard of another way that does exactly what you''re wanting to do. Sorry about not being able to help, but you might want to do a search.


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