A C++ File I/O related problem...

[FrankRafa]

Hi all, Recently I'm running into some brick walls with a random project that I tried to do. So this project is sort of laser tag game and it requires some simple input and output. But the thing is I felt all a mess when trying to figure out the way it works.. So I bring this to you guys and hope that I might have something learned at the end of this.

So the problem requires me to do this...

**Read in data from three different text files:
Team member names for team A, a Team Member Input File
Team member names for team B, a Team Member Input File
Laser Tag Match file giving information about what player successfully tagged another, a Match File
the program will aggregate the data from the Match File to be used for output.**

After reading this I cant help but think about the way it functions and then I got really stuck in the middle of something: i dont know how I will make the file and let user actually type the name of the file and create them at the beginning. Also I felt like how do you make those player names in the file to tag each other? I honestly cant figure this out... Hope someone might be able to give me some idea though... Thank you!

[FrankRafa]

Would really appreciate some help...

[MiiNiPaa]

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files/

You need to just read desired filename into string and create file stream with than name.

[FrankRafa]

More specifically.... I got stuck about how the game should start since I dont know how to readin names and numbers to let them tag each other...

[MiiNiPaa]

Read names from file. Create some custom structure using that names
example:

struct PlayerData
{
    std::string name;
    int tagged;
    int was_tagged;
};

Sotre those structures in some container.
Read names of who tagged who, find those persons in your container and modify their data accordingly (increase tagged field for winner, increase was_tagged for loser)