C++ coding question

[neilm]

Haven't touched C++ in two years so I'm abit rough, anyway need help

I'm extracting the contacts of one text file, and putting it in another (which the code attached does)... but I was wondering, how would I go about extracting the contents of two or more different text files and puttin them into the single output file one after the other (in order of whats extracted first).

Thanks for any help.

Note: This ain't homework, or any kind of project... just messing about.

 

[Nothinman]

It depends on how you want to do it.

You could just have another ifstream, or reuse the 'in' ifstream, and redo 'out << in.rdbuf();' after closing in and reopening it with the new file.

Or if you plan on supporting any number of input files you could have a while loop that goes through a list of files and puts them in the destination file on per loop.

Or you could have 2 loops, one loops through the list of files and puts them in an array and then the second loop goes over that array and copies the files to the destination.

 

[neilm]

That gives me some options to play with... another thing, how would I be able to get the text file date (seen in the properties of the file)?

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: neilm
That gives me some options to play with... another thing, how would I be able to get the text file date (seen in the properties of the file)?

stat

 

[neilm]

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: neilm
That gives me some options to play with... another thing, how would I be able to get the text file date (seen in the properties of the file)?

stat

Sorry can I have an small example of stat for getting the creation date of a file?

 

[Armitage]

Check out the man page if your on a *nix box - there's a pretty good example there.

 

[neilm]

Nah, I'm on Windows... anyone have a sample of this stat method?

 

[imported_BadKarma]

Here ya go.
http://www.codeproject.com/file/filesize.asp

 

[neilm]

Originally posted by: BadKarma
Here ya go.
http://www.codeproject.com/file/filesize.asp

That's filesize though, have you anything on creation date for the stat method?

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: neilm

Originally posted by: BadKarma
Here ya go.
http://www.codeproject.com/file/filesize.asp

That's filesize though, have you anything on creation date for the stat method?

Try looking at the documentation and giving it a try. Come back with specific issues.
A big part of programming is learning how to teach yourself, and where to find information.

 

[itachi]

if u wanna copy one file to another.. u could always just take the easy way out..
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

fstream fs1, fs2;
fs1.open (...); fs2.open (...);
fs1.get (*(fs2.rdbuf ()), EOF);

that'll read directly from fs1 to fs2.

here's how to use fstat in windows..

this crap was acting up.. interpreted a simple preprocessor as a ssi, so i had to change the include statements.