I gave you a complete solution, try that you ungrateful moron.

You should be using the << operator for cout...


graeme

I'm still guessing at the code you're using to get that error, but I think you need to do:

cout << indata.rdbuf();

Not:

indata >> cout;

This is because streams expects to work with data or stream-buffers, rather than a stream.

It output the proper pathway to the file

Hivemind, still trying to make your code work for me. Trying to find out what is different so I can change mind. Thanks for the code, it does work.

any idea whats different from yours?

There is quite a bit of code there and I'm not certain at which point you are getting the error. Can you tell us what error you are getting (i.e what gets printed out to the console), then we can see at which line this is being generated.

cheers,

graeme.

I am getting the error line
"Failed to get number of gridpoints"

That means that the is_open didn't cause an error. I changed the filename so that I tried to open a file that didn't exist and the is_open caused the problem. This could only mean that the Bonavista.con is actually opening. The problem has to be that it cannot read the file.

In addition to that I substituted Allroad.con where Bonavista.con was just to see if any file could be read, and it didn't work. But I already opened Allroad.con and got information from it. :P ahhhhh

yes.. i told you this with my first post in this thread..

did you try hiveminds solution on your original datafiles in their original locations?

Opening a file, reading a name from it, then closing the file and open a new file with the name read is trivial. And it's all in my code.

Divide and conquer is the key to successful programming, and it's clear you haven't done that. First you should write a function that opens the allroad.con file. When you have *tested* that it works, extend the function to read a file name. When you have *tested* that it can read the name, you close the file (if you don't need it anymore), then the next step is to write a function that opens a file with name that you just read. Then you test that and the next step is to test if you can read from the second file and so forth. Divide and conquer. Build your program from nothing to completeness by adding small parts (modules, functions, classes whatever) that can be tested independently. Each time you add something, you test again to see if it works. That way you see what's working and what's not.

Hivemind thats what I was doing.
Testing every step of the way, each time I would test to make sure each piece of data was collected.

Thanks for you time and help guys.

Solution: When I would close the first file data would stay on the stream. To solve this I used the clear function and it worked. I figured it out by adding a second ifstream called inData2 and it worked. But hivemind you only used one ifstream so...who knows. Maybe you now know what I was doing wrong? was the close() working properly?

If the fail bit is set all ops except clear are no-ops until the fail bit has been cleared. But you shouldn't have to get into a situation where the fail bit is set if you perform your reads and writes properly.