1-dimensional string arrays.

[fleur de lis]

How would I go about opening a file and reading the data into two separate 1-dimensional string arrays.

for (i = 0; i < SIZE; i++)

inFile >> Name[i]; 

inFile.open("Names");

if(inFile.fail())
{
cout << "can't open file" << endl;
}

for(int i = 0; i < SIZE; i++)
{
Names[i] = 0;
}

There is one infile with 2 different sets of data in it.

[oghmaosiris]

You're reading from the file before it's open.

And then after it's open, you're setting everything to null.

Is type is Name?

are you reading numbers or characters?

[Computergeek01]

Numbers or characters wouldn't matter since he is reading thing into string arrays they would be processed as characters. Unless that's the point you're trying to make in which case I come off sounding like a pompus clown.

[oghmaosiris]

;-)

[fleur de lis]

I am reading Names from an infile.

[oghmaosiris]

Well, like I said, you're not reading anything from an infile in that code snippet.