question about output

[bbathel]

void read_player1_hand(ifstream& in_stream, string card_value[], string card_suit[],string& bet, string player1_hand)
{
     int i=0;
     card_value[NUMBER_OF_CARDS_IN_A_HAND];
     card_suit[NUMBER_OF_CARDS_IN_A_HAND]; 
     string next_char;
     string player1_hand;
     while(!in_stream.eof())
     {             
          in_stream.get(next_char);
          while(is_card_value(next_char))
          {
              card_value[i]+=next_char;
          }
          while (is_card_suit(next_char))
          {
              card_suit[i]=(next_char);
          }
          i++;
          while (is_bet(next_char)
          {
              bet+=next_char;
          }  
     }

     for(i=0;i<NUMBER_OF_CARDS_IN_A_HAND;i++)
     {
          
          player1_hand+= (card_suit[i]);
          player1_hand+= (card_value[i]);
          player1_hand+= (SPACE);
     }
      player1_hand+= (DOLLAR_SIGN);
      player1_hand+= (bet)
          
}

If if want to out put player1_hand straight to an ofstream would

ofstream out_stream;
out_stream<< player1_hand

work or would the insertion operator skip the white space or will it skip the whitespace?

[bbathel]

i meant or will it output the whitespace because it's part of the string

[LB]

player1_hand is just a std::string, and those work just fine with std::ostreams:

std::string MyString ("This is a string.");
std::cout << "The string reads: " << MyString << std::endl;

Because std::ofstream is derived from std::ostream, it should work as expected.

[bbathel]

okay thanks