Simple C++ read file program gives many errors

TheFoxy · Jun 28, 2003

Hey,

Any ideas why the following program doesn't work? It gives this error in MS Visual C++ 6:

Error spawning cl.exe

Andd the following errors in Dev-C++:

[Warning] In function `int main()':
11 no matching function for call to `ifstream::get (char[20])'
124 C:\DEV-CPP\include\g++-3\iostream.h
candidates are: class istream & istream::get(char *, int, char = '\n')
126 C:\DEV-CPP\include\g++-3\iostream.h
class istream & istream::get(unsigned char *, int, char = '\n')
127 C:\DEV-CPP\include\g++-3\iostream.h
class istream & istream::get(char &)
128 C:\DEV-CPP\include\g++-3\iostream.h
class istream & istream::get(unsigned char &)
132 C:\DEV-CPP\include\g++-3\iostream.h
class istream & istream::get(signed char &)
134 C:\DEV-CPP\include\g++-3\iostream.h
class istream & istream::get(signed char *, int, char = '\n')
144 C:\DEV-CPP\include\g++-3\iostream.h
class istream & istream::get(streambuf &, char = '\n')
173 C:\DEV-CPP\include\g++-3\iostream.h
int istream::get()

Source:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main() 
{
char text[20];

ifstream fileread(&quot;C:\\moo.txt&quot;);

fileread.get(text);
fileread.close();

cout << &quot;Content-type: text/html\n\n<html>\n<body>\n&quot;;
cout << &quot;<p>&quot; << text << &quot;</p>&quot;;
cout << &quot;</body>\n</html>\n&quot;;

return 0;
}

arielj · Jun 29, 2003

this is quick and dirty but it shoul do what you want.
just remember to check that the file exists.

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char * argv[]){
if (argc!=2){
cout<<"Usage is: "<< argv[0]<< " <infile>\n";
return 0;
}
ifstream file;
file.open(argv[1]);
char x;
file.get(x);
cout << "Content-type: text/html\n\n<html>\n<body>\n<p>";
while (!file.eof()){
if (x!='\n')
cout<<x;
file.get(x);
}
cout << "</p>\n</body>\n</html>\n";
file.close();
return 0;
}

ArkM · Jul 2, 2003

Dev-C++ message is OK. There's no get(x) member function in istream with 1 (char*) type arg. Use getline(...) or read(...) members instead - that's all. istream::get(x)accepts T& only args (see MSDN help). Full VC diagnostic message is more less readable (as usually

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Simple C++ read file program gives many errors

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