I am programming a role-playing game from DOS to Win32 using Microsoft Visual C++ 6 environment. Recently, I have a problem reading texts from files. I've attempted already the various methods to read a file. Actually, I know how to read a file as a whole using fopen(), however, my app is turning crazy: it also reads extra texts that I do not understand. Can you please help me find a good reading a text from file for Win32 apps?

Another question, my VC++6 do not recognize the getline() function even if I already added the <string> and <iostream> header files. I want to use the string class and getline() function that I have used once before using Borland C++ 5.02 compiler.
Thanks guys!!!

Note: My game is a text game but hopefully, it will include some graphics when I successfully port it to Win32. During it's DOS time, it was like Bots. See bots2.net

Thanks!

anmjoven

Oops, wrong grammar! (accident)
I mean "Win32: Reading texts from a file"

anmjoven

#include <fstream>

^ add that
v and this

char buffer[256];
ifstream readIn ("file.txt");
if (! readIn.is_open())
{ cout << "Error opening file"; exit (1); }

while (! readIn.eof() )
{
readIn.getline (buffer,256);
cout << buffer << endl;
}

incorporate that. :)