[RESOLVED]fstream

[chuddy]

I want to carry out some file handling operations and was thinking of using the <fstream.h> library.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <fstream.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  fstream myStream;
  char file1[20] = "testing";
  myStream.open(file, ios:://problem...

  return 0;
}

2 questions:

Firstly, my problem manifests itself when i type in "myStream.open"

From all the reference material and examples that I have seen online I can see that there are only 2 arguments for this function. However, the Visual C++ intellisense is telling me that the signature is actually:

void open (const char*, int, int=filebuf::openprot)

I am using Windows XP... is this the reason? Also... when I type in "ios" the intellisense does not give me options such as "app" . Instead I have "adjustfield, bad, basefield, bitalloc, bp, clear... etc".

Secondly, I just wanted to know how come all the examples show that i can use a fstream object without first using the "new" keyword? How come it can be used without instanciation?

Thanks!