Re: Help with file writing please
* Juha Nieminen:
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
#include <cstddef> // std::size_t
#include <string> // std::string
#include <vector> // std::vector
// Your additional headers, e.g.
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
typedef std::vector<std::string> StringVector;
void cppMain( StringVector const& arguments )
{
using namespace std;
// Your code goes here, e.g.
for( size_t i = 0; i < arguments.size(); ++i )
{
cout << arguments.at( i ) << endl;
}
}
int main( int nArgs, char* args[] )
{
// This can be elaborated on, but as a minimum:
cppMain( StringVector( args, args + nArgs );
}
Or he could just do what he wanted to do, ie. append the first
command-line argument to a file:
#include <fstream>
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
if(argc > 1)
{
std::ofstream os("file.txt", std::ios::app);
os << argv[1];
}
}
That's not a good idea. It doesn't help the OP learn anything, it
doesn't help the OP avoid other problems, and it doesn't show that you
know anything (the programming is trivial). It only shows that you
haven't read the "Give a man a fish" quote a sufficient number of times;
I leave finding that quote as an exercice -- for you.
Cheers,
- Alf
"Never underestimate stupidity" - Heinlein
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