Working with and outputting Strings

[deville75]

I'm using the fwrite function and I'm having a problem.

size_t fwrite ( const void * ptr, size_t size, size_t count, FILE * stream );

my ptr is a character of size 256.
size is set to 1 ( sizeof(ptr[0]) ).
my problem is with count. If i set count to sizeof(buffer) it will be set to 256. how do i make it so that it only gets the exact size of only the text.
stream is just a FILE object.

What I did is I tried entereing a template text. So if my text is "12:32:58:01" then I let count be equal to sizeof("99:99:99:99");

This works, but the problem is my text does not follow an exact template.

Any ideas? Or maybe I should use a different output function.

[md]

try strlen, which will interpret your buffer as a string. If your not writing an actual string, but some binary data then you'll have to figure out the size on your own.

[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy]

Are you just trying to write some characters to a text file? How come the extraction operator (>>) doesn't work?

Also I'm having trouble understanding what you are saying. All that templated text jazz confused the hell out of me. But are you saying you want to take a c-string like "hello my name is" and have it output "hello my name is" to a text file?

In that case I'd do this:

code:

char c_string[255] = "hello my name is: "; std::string cpp_string = c_string; std::ifstream in("hello.txt"); cpp_string >> in;

[deville75]

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy @ Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:16 pm wrote:

Are you just trying to write some characters to a text file? How come the extraction operator (>>) doesn't work?

Also I'm having trouble understanding what you are saying. All that templated text jazz confused the hell out of me. But are you saying you want to take a c-string like "hello my name is" and have it output "hello my name is" to a text file?

In that case I'd do this:

code:

char c_string[255] = "hello my name is: "; std::string cpp_string = c_string; std::ifstream in("hello.txt"); cpp_string >> in;

lol, ya i didn't think that template 'jazz' was very well explained by me.. my mistake. Yes you are right I want to output text to a file, but the text is actual data. There are four 'channels', each channel is read and the data needs to be output to a .csv (comma seperated excel file). So I'd output: (pseudocode) chan1 + "," + chan2 + "," + chan3 + "," + chan4 + "\n";

chan1-4 is a char that will look like this: 23.2423 for example, or it will say "Disconnected" if the channel is disconnected.

But, either way Md's suggestion worked! I can't believe I forgot about strlen function

[md]

try [codein << "stuff" [/code] Given that that's how you write

also

code:

in << c1 << "," << c2 << "," << c3 << "," << c4 << std::endl;

using std::string is a much better idea then c strings, so I'd recommend looking into them.