I have a pretty simple question about reading and writing from a text file. I don't even know if I should be attempting this just yet, as I am really not familiar with pointers(although I'm not sure if they have anything to do with what I want to do). I want this program to input a simple string from a user and write it to a file. I will stick with just writing to the file for now, and perhaps later in the thread, to reading from a file. I am going to outline what I want to accomplish in psuedo-code. If someone could "translate" this to C/C++ or Python, I would appreciate it. Also, feel free to offer any other advice on this. Thanks. OPEN (something.txt) PRINT "Enter some text" INPUT x WRITE x(something.txt) CLOSE (something.txt) END

char string[80]; char buffer[80]; ifstream inFile; ofstream outFile; cout [[ "Enter a string"; cin.getline(string, 80, '\n'); outFile.open("somefile.ext", ios::out); error check outFile [[ string; inFile.open("somefile.ext", ios::in); error check inFile.getline(buffer, 80, '\n'); cout [[ buffer; piece of cake ;-)

Thanks Roninl. But I am not familiar with most of that code. I obviously have a bit more to learn. Also, I assume from the dot notation that inFile and outFile are objects. Right? How would one do this without working with objects? How about in just regular C as opposed to C++?

NP I'm not an expert in OOP, but I presume ofstream and ifstream are simply objects in the fstream class. C file i/o is a little more involved and I often have to think about it before I try it so this is likely not the best route, but I'll give it a shot. That's why I tend to use C++ and C :P char string[80]; char buffer[80]; FILE *fptr; printf("Enter a string: "); fgets(string, 80, stdin); if((fptr = fopen("somefile.ext", "w")) == NULL) { printf("unable to write to file."); return -1; } fprintf(fptr, "%s", string); fclose(fptr); if((fptr = fopen("somefile.ext", "r")) == NULL) { printf("Unable to read from file."); return -1; } fgets(buffer, 80, fptr); fclose(fptr); printf("your string: %s", buffer); Something like that. Look at your compiler documentation or help files for file i/o HTH

Thanks again for the reply. Now I can plainly see I am not ready for this yet. I have some more reading to do.