Stock Sorter

[sixstringaddict]

I'm supposed to make a program which reads a txt file containing stock names and prices and then put them into a struct and then sort it. It's only been like 6 weeks since this class started so I'm pretty overwhelmed with this assignment.

I tried using the ifstream inClientFile to read the text file I made but I can't seem to get it to read it let alone turn the data into structs and sort it. Can someone offer some guidance on what to do?

Thanks

[Intrexa]

Well, the solution is probably going to involve some sort of 'stock' structure containing a string and a number, and then it's most likely going to open the file in a stream, then use some sort of loop to put that data into your structures. What is the code that you have that isn't working?

[sixstringaddict]

Well now i'm just trying to manually add each struct but I can't get it to work. For example

using namespace std;

float Return;
float RETURNS( float p1, float p2) //calculates the return
{
Return = (p2 - p1)/p1;
return Return;
}

struct stock{ //builds the overall struct
char name[150];
float price1;
float price2;
float Return;
};



stock list[10]; //our stocks values
strcmp(list[1].name,"AT&T");
list[1].price1 = 4.50;
list[1].price2 = 5.50;
list[1].Return = RETURNS(list[1].price1,list[1].price2);

strcmp(list[2].name,"FAB");
list[2].price1 = 10.50;
list[2].price2 = 11.20;
list[2].Return = RETURNS(list[2].price1,list[2].price2);