[RESOLVED] Newbie on C++. Help in Structures

[louvelle]

Hi guys!

I have a text file name "Employee.txt"..
The text contains the following:

Juan_De_La_Cruz,A001,1
Miriam_Bismonte,A002,1
Gloria_Macapagal,A003,3
Manny_Pacquiao,A004,3
Jose_Rizal,A005,2

What I wanted to do right now is I kinda put the data in the text file into a structure that I created so that I can easily access the files when I try to search for something like the name of the employee.

Here is my code so far and I'm kinda stuck right now because I don't know what to do. Feel free to criticize my code because I'm new in c++ and it will help me improve a lot.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

struct Employees
{
	char EmployeeName[50];
	char EmployeeID[10];
	int Level;
};

int main ()
{
	using namespace std;	
	int offset;
	char EmpCode[20];
	string line;

	cout << "----Payroll System----" << endl;
	cout << "Enter Employee Code: \n";
	cin >> EmpCode;
	
	ifstream Employee;
	Employee.open("employee.txt");
	if(Employee.is_open())
	{
		while (!Employee.eof())
		{
			getline(Employee, line);
			if ((offset = line.find(EmpCode, 0)) != string::npos)
				cout << line << endl;
		}

		Employee.close();
		
	}
	else
		cout << "Unable to open this file" << endl;

	return 0;
}

I learned how to code in C++ on youtube by watching thenewboston topics about C++ and a couple of google search.

Note: I was actually trying to create a Payroll System so please ignore the part with the cin >> EmpCode.

[louvelle]

I finally found a solution to my problem. What it does is it stores a record in the structure that I created if the computer finds the record inputted by the user...it took me a while but at least problem solve..

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;	

struct newperson
{
	string EmployeeName;
	string EmployeeID;
	string Level;
} ListEmp;

int main ()
{
	
	int offset;
	char EmpCode[20];
	string line;
	size_t found;

	cout << "----Payroll System----" << endl;
	cout << "Enter Employee Code: \n";
	cin >> EmpCode;
	
	ifstream Employee;
	Employee.open("employee.txt");
	if(Employee.is_open())
	{
		while (!Employee.eof())
		{
			getline(Employee, line);
			if ((offset = line.find(EmpCode, 0)) != string::npos)
				cout << line << endl;

				istringstream iss(line);	
				getline(iss, ListEmp.EmployeeName, ',');
				getline(iss, ListEmp.EmployeeID, ',');
				getline(iss, ListEmp.Level, ',');

				break;
				
		}

		Employee.close();
		
		cout << "Employee Name: " <<ListEmp.EmployeeName << endl;		
		
	}
	else
		cout << "Unable to open this file" << endl;

	return 0;
}