How do I read text files?

[HavingPhun]

Hi I already found a tutorial on this but it didnt work. But I am wondering if anyone can tell me how to read text files line by line and determine what they say. Also is it posibble to make a new enumerated type but have it also be a function or class? Or would that cause errors?
Thanks ahead for helping.

[Skizmo]

How to read a textfile

[aamir121a]

very easy to do in QT ( a well developed C++ framework)

QFile myfile("text.txt");
myfile.open(QFile::ReadOnly);
QTextStream myreader(&myfile);
QString  linereader = myreader.readline(); // reading one line at a time 
Qstring  readall = myreader.readall() // read all texty into a single QString  same as std::string

if you are new to C++ then stick with well established framework as QT or wxwidgets

these frameworks make writing C++ code relatively easy and offer tons of easy to use API
further they are very well documented.

[Amleto]

I'd say qt is much better documented than wx. I'd also say for reading files stl is simple enough

[HavingPhun]

I just realised this might be in the wrong section but I use visual C++ for compiling c++ and it makes errors for the way I tried to do it. So how would I do it with that? It has an error where I
type:

ifstream myfile;

the error is "ifstream is unidentified"
So how would I do this on visual c++

[monarch_dodra]

ifstream myfile;

the error is "ifstream is unidentified"
So how would I do this on visual c++

#include <fstream>

int main()
{
  std::ifstream myfile;
}

[HavingPhun]

#include <fstream>

int main()
{
  std::ifstream myfile;
}

oh std::fstream thanks!