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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 09:31:27 -0500
From: Nehru Juman <shadowcaster AT solutions2000 DOT net>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: (Problem with structs)
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Thank you very much for the help.  My program works fine now.

Endlisnis wrote:

> Nehru Juman wrote:
>
> > I'm having a problem with a program I took directly from a c++ book ("A
> > Beginners C++) which involves writing structs to disk.  Since it comes
> > from the book I assume it should work.  I wrote a simplified program to
> > isolate the problem.  Can anybody tell me why the below code doesn't
> > work properly:
>
> [snip]
>
> > alpha beta[20]={{10,"abcd"},{20,"efgh"},{30,"ijkl"},                   ^^
> note the 10.[snip]
>
> >      gDataFile.open("testfile.my",ios::in|ios::out);
>
>     The problem is with the DOS implimentation of "newline"s.  In DOS, a
> 'newline' is represented as CR, LF (13,10).  And for fstream to write text
> files that standard text editors can read, any time you try to write byte
> value 10, a byte value 13 is written as well.  You can override this in the
> open line:
>      gDataFile.open("testfile.my",ios::in|ios::out|ios::binary);
>     That fixes the problem (I tried it, and it works).
> --
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