Coding Inquiry

[Atrocities]

If you want to write a program, write one that automatically breaks the files down into easy to follow and PRINTABLE tech trees for use with mods.

[Fyron]

Setting the characters to be newline characters is not used on any of the strings where this problem occurs. Earlier when reading in the components, I use the newline character because I want lines read in that are just newlines (blank lines) to be skipped. If getting a line results in the string being just a newline, it gets skipped. I don't think this has anything to do with having lots of stuff appended to the beginning of the char arrays in this section, as I do not reference this function, nor the buffer string.

I am well aware that strings are just arrays of characters, but the ofstream class is unfortunately not aware of this. :-\

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
If you want to write a program, write one that automatically breaks the files down into easy to follow and PRINTABLE tech trees for use with mods.

That would be rather hard to do... if each tech only had one level, it would be easy. But with lots of levels, it becomes messey... :-\

[Cipher7071]

I'm not sure if this will help or not, but I seem to remember needing to use the chop() function on strings.

(hmmm...can't seem to remember if this was a C++, or a Perl thing?)

[ April 05, 2004, 20:51: Message edited by: Cipher7071 ]

[Ed Kolis]

You do know that all strings in C have to end with a null terminator, don't you?

Wouldn't it be better to use a string class that's available in many a C++ library?

[Fyron]

You miss the point... ofstream objects DO NOT ACCEPT strings. You have to use arrays of characters... this is where the problem lays, in trying to get an appropriate array of characters that are exactly the same as the string from which you are building it...

[Will]

Ummm... Fyron, I think you need to be introduced to the wonders of c_str().

code:

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#include <string>

#include <fstream>

...

string aString;

...

ofstream outFile(aString.c_str()):

...

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The c_str() method of string returns a pointer to a null-terminated array of char. Which is what the fstream classes take in their constructors.