hello. i was wondering how would i write a function that would allow me to save an array of stucts (for example an inventory system) to a file. i want to be able to have the user type in a name that it saves to. i also was wondering how i then can have the user input that file back in so they would have their inventory back.
thank you for the help.

zerolink

You mean in what language?
Here is basicly what you have to do:
open a file with a filehandle
write to the file using the filehandle
close the file.

Goodluck

I got this far on saving it to a file:
void savetofile(Node *parts)
{
char filenamea[10],filenameb[20]={"./"};

printf("Enter name of file to create: ");
scanf("%s",filenamea);

strcat(filenameb,filenamea);
strcat(filenameb,".dat");
filenameb[strlen(filenameb)]='\0';

FILE * thefile=fopen(filenameb,"wt");

fprintf(thefile,Node &parts);

fclose(thefile);
}

However the trouble im having is in the fprintf line. i want to pass it the struct of information but not sure how. i have parts pointing to the struct.

and i am using visual C++

thanks again

What I see in the code is you are trying to write the file in Acci. YOu need to think about a binary file instead. fprintf() is the same as printf() only diff is one write to the file and other write to IO. Try to use Write() instead. I have a very short example.

struct exam
{
int a;
char b[20];
};

The total memory allocated for the struct will be 24 bytes begin at integer a (assume that you are using PC). Got it?

Goodluck