[prog] Another C++ problem

[Sue Stones]

Oh thank-you so much, I was getting frustrated last night, which becomes a 
positively reinforcing process. I think that I am almost there so I try 
harder.  Sometimes a break is more productive.  But I don't like to put it 
asside because I am likely to get waylaid by other things and then other 
presures come along and days, weeks and months slip by.

Thank-you for all you comments, I will now go through these 2 programs again 
and use the insights that you have given me.  (And I am going to relax and  
not expect it to all make sence for about 2 months - a little at a time.  I 
think that I had unrealistic expectations).  

sue

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:46 am, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> >         fstream inFile;       // I spent ages trying to get ifstream to
> > work
>
> Remove this line and things should work much better.  You're creating an
> object which shadows an identical object declared as a class member.  So
> sure, you're opening up _this_ inFile, but the _member_ inFile never
> gets opened.
>
> It should also be an ifstream--the code I sent you off-list has examples
> of how to use ifstreams.