how to read from text file

Hey guys,

I'm having trouble reading an integer from a text file.

for example I have the following stored in a text file

------------ beginning of file------------excluding this line
H
88
------------ end of file------------excluding this line

and there are no spaces after any of the above words, each word is stored in one line.

I have an ifstream object that reads

char charVar;
int intVar;
inFile.read(reinterpret_cast(&charVar),sizeof(char));
cout <<"char value is : "<<charVar ;
inFile.read(reinterpret_cast(intVar),sizeof(int));
cout <<"int Var is : "<<intVar;

the first one works fine, ..but I cant seem to read the integer I m getting some negative numberss

and I have to use the ios::binay method to open the file,

What's with all the casting? I believe this should do what you want:

Code:

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char charVar;
int intVar;

inFile >> charVar;
inFile.ignore(); // Ignore the newline character!
cout << "char value is : " << charVar ;

inFile >> intVar;
inFile.ignore(); // Ignore the newline character!
cout << "int Var is : " << intVar;

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