Newbie trying to learn from a crappy book...

Hi,

Could someone explain how to write some text to a file, my documentation is truly appalling.
PS some code to write text with my Dot-matrix printer would be cool too.

I am using the ANSI 32-bit RHIDE C++ compiler (DOS).

Thanks

[Vlatko]

hEdit = handle of the window containing text
pszFileName = filename

BOOL SaveFile(HWND hEdit, LPSTR pszFileName)
{
   HANDLE hFile;
   BOOL bSuccess = FALSE;

   hFile = CreateFile(pszFileName, GENERIC_WRITE, NULL, NULL,
      CREATE_ALWAYS, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
   if(hFile != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
   {
      DWORD dwTextLength;
      dwTextLength = GetWindowTextLength(hEdit);
      if(dwTextLength > 0)// No need to bother if there's no text.
      {
         LPSTR pszText;
         pszText = (char*)GlobalAlloc(GPTR, dwTextLength + 1);pszText != NULL)
         {
            if(GetWindowText(hEdit, pszText, dwTextLength + 1))
            {
               DWORD dwWritten;
               if(WriteFile(hFile, pszText, dwTextLength, &dwWritten, NULL))
                  bSuccess = TRUE;
            }
            GlobalFree(pszText);
         }
      }
      CloseHandle(hFile);
   }
   return bSuccess;
}


BOOL LoadFile(HWND hEdit, LPSTR pszFileName)
{
   HANDLE hFile;
   BOOL bSuccess = FALSE;

   hFile = CreateFile(pszFileName, GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL,
      OPEN_EXISTING, NULL, NULL);
   if(hFile != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
   {
      DWORD dwFileSize;
      
         if(dwFileSize = GetFileSize(hFile, NULL);
      if(dwFileSize != 0xFFFFFFFF)
      {
         LPSTR pszFileText;
         pszFileText = (char*)GlobalAlloc(GPTR, dwFileSize + 1);
         if(pszFileText != NULL)
         {
            DWORD dwRead;
            if(ReadFile(hFile, pszFileText, dwFileSize, &dwRead, NULL))
            {
               pszFileText[dwFileSize] = 0; // Null terminator
               if(SetWindowText(hEdit, pszFileText))
                  bSuccess = TRUE; // It worked!
            }
            GlobalFree(pszFileText);
         }
      }
      CloseHandle(hFile);
   }
   return bSuccess;
}

[parksie]

How's about:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main() {
    ofstream MyFile("file.txt");
    char *pcText = "Here is text";

    MyFile << pcText << endl;

    MyFile.close();
}