This problem is geting disgusting.

[fonzie]

I've been having a reccuring problem with my code for around a month now where the code compiles fine, however, the file is not created. While at my friends place, (using dev bloodshed C++ v.4 if it matters) He points out to me that I put "fstream" rather than "ofstream". Success! My code finaly does what it should. However, when I get home (dev bloodshed C++ v.5) and add the aforementioned "ofstream" it does NOT create the file. Here's my code.

PS: The function "readInCustomer" is my begining to experiment with reading in the file, I'm not 100% on how this works, however, if anybody has any better ideas I'm open to them.

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>


using namespace std;

struct customerDataBase{    //basic customer information struct
     string lastName;
     string firstName;
     string addr1;
     string addr2;
     string eMail;
} Customer;

const int maxCustomerNumber = 1; 
customerDataBase customerArray[maxCustomerNumber];
int k;

void TheScreen(customerDataBase customerInfo){  
     //this SHOULD print out all the information in the array
     cout<<"Last name: "<<customerInfo.lastName<<endl;
     cout<<"First name: "<<customerInfo.firstName<<endl;
     cout<<"Addr1: "<<customerInfo.addr1<<endl;
     cout<<"Addr2: "<<customerInfo.addr2<<endl;
     cout<<"E-Mail: "<<customerInfo.eMail<<endl;
}

void readInCustomer(){
     ifstream CustomerFile;
     CustomerFile.open("C:\\DoNotDelete.txt");
     system ("PAUSE");
     CustomerFile>>customerArray[k].lastName;
     system ("PAUSE");
     CustomerFile>>customerArray[k].firstName;
     system ("PAUSE");
     CustomerFile>>customerArray[k].addr1;
     system ("PAUSE");
     CustomerFile>>customerArray[k].addr2;
     system ("PAUSE");
     CustomerFile>>customerArray[k].eMail;
     system ("PAUSE");
     TheScreen(customerArray[k]);
     system ("PAUSE");
}     

void addNewCustomer(){
     ofstream CustomerFile;
     CustomerFile.open("C:\\DoNotDelete.txt");
     TheScreen(customerArray[k]);
     cout<<endl<<"please enter last name: ";
     cin>>customerArray[k].lastName;
     CustomerFile<<customerArray[k].lastName<<",";
     system ("cls");
     TheScreen(customerArray[k]);
     cout<<endl<<"please enter first name: ";
     cin>>customerArray[k].firstName;
     CustomerFile<<customerArray[k].firstName<<",";
     system ("cls");
     TheScreen(customerArray[k]);
     cout<<endl<<"please address name: ";
     cin>>customerArray[k].addr1;
     CustomerFile<<customerArray[k].addr1<<",";
     system ("cls");
     TheScreen(customerArray[k]);
     cout<<endl<<"please other address information name: ";
     cin>>customerArray[k].addr2;
     CustomerFile<<customerArray[k].addr2<<",";
     system ("cls");
     TheScreen(customerArray[k]);
     cout<<endl<<"please enter e-mail name: ";
     cin>>customerArray[k].eMail;
     CustomerFile<<customerArray[k].eMail<<",";
     system ("cls");
     TheScreen(customerArray[k]); 
     CustomerFile.close(); 
}     

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    readInCustomer();
    addNewCustomer();
    system("PAUSE");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

[Duthomhas]

If you wish to overwrite the file, make sure line 50 reads

CustomerFile.open("C:\\DoNotDelete.txt", ios_base::trunc );

Between lines 50 and 51 you should check that the file was actually opened and writable:

if (!CustomerFile) fooey();

(It may not be if you don't have high-enough permissions.)

I hope all those system("PAUSE")s and system("CLS")s are temporary...

Hope this helps.

[fonzie]

Thanks a bunch, I'll try it out.

And this isn't a professional program, just a little thing of my own, so I'm not to worried about systempause and systemcls, but I'll do my best to remove them.

[Duthomhas]

I figured that was the case. Good luck!