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. :)