Reading and Writing Text Files

COM1100 -- Winter2000 -- Yuhong Yin

Question 2 and solution

• Read a file one char at a time and show the contents on the screen

• ifstream myFile; // declare an input file stream

GetInputFile(myFile); // call GetInputFile (See slide 4)

char ch; // declare a char variable

while ( myFile.peek() != EOF ) { // test if at the End Of File

myFile.get(ch); // read one character a time

cout << ch; // print the character onto screen

}

myFile.close(); // close the file stream