[sudheesh1995]

Guys , i've got some trouble while copying text files. I used the following code :

void copier()
{
	ifstream fout("LUDODESGIN.txt");
	ofstream fin("Temp.txt");
	char ch;
	while (fout.get(ch))
	{
   	cout<<ch;
	fin<<printf("%c",ch);
	}
        fout.close();
	fin.close();
}

i am not getting any output for the

 cout<<ch; 

also .

I need this to do my school project. Please help

[ishkabible]

is the file being opend?

try adding a check after opening each file

if(!fout) {
   cout<<"there was an error opening the file\n";
}

look at this

fin<<printf("%c",ch);

i think your a bit confused here. printf returns the length of what it printed out, not what it printed out. you just want

fin<<ch;

[PlasticineGuy]

I'll make it easy.
Don't use printf() in C++ application.

[Salem_c]

> 03 ifstream fout("LUDODESGIN.txt");
> 04 ofstream fin("Temp.txt");
The code would be far more readable if you had named your variables like so.

ifstream fin("LUDODESGIN.txt");
ofstream fout("Temp.txt");

[sudheesh1995]

guys i tried it with

 fin<<ch 

but it still doesn't work !

the main thing is
even the statement

 cout<<ch 

doesn't work

[Salem_c]

Well post your latest code showing what error checking you've added, and what other fixe(s) have been suggested.

You can't post 1 line and say it doesn't work.

[sudheesh1995]

i've made the new code this way

void copyfile()
{
	ifstream fin("LUDODESIGN.txt");
   ofstream fout("Temp.txt");
   char line[80];
   while(fin.getline(line,80))
   {
   	cout<<line<<endl;
      fout<<line<<endl;
   }
   fin.close();
   fout.close();
}

but now the whole alignment has shifted down by 1 line

[janotte]

Please explain what this means.

sudheesh1995, on 16 July 2011 - 04:49 PM, said:

but now the whole alignment has shifted down by 1 line

What are you trying to say?

Maybe an example?

[sudheesh1995]

well ... it means that the first line now has NO output , basically the output starts from the 2nd line , and i want it to go one line 'UP' on my DOS screen.

[janotte]

Give us a working program and not just a function.

That means you need to give us a main() that calls your function and produces the result you are reporting.

[sudheesh1995]

thanks everyone , figured it out now , i had a

 cout<<endl; 

outside my main() function.