file i/o

[jmiller]

I have a book on c++ (sams teach yourself), but it doesn't go into file input and output very well. What i need to do is this:
1. Save a bunch of info about a level in a text file, so i can just load the info about each game level into a struct or maybe a class. The info would be like level parameters and such.
2. I need to write to a file in order to save the game. This would be typical game save info.

Preferably, I would like the file to be formatted like this:
Level:1
NumEnemies:10
Background:C:\picture.bmp
etc.....

then i could just "pick" out the values
i've done this in vb, but i can't find a good resource about it in c++. So if you could give me a hand or point me in the right direction i'd be real grateful.

thanks,
jmiller

[sunburnt]

the fstream header contains two classes for file I/O: ifstream and ofstream for input and output respectively. you can also use the fstream class and specify what type of access you want to the file.

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

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
     //input file stream
     ifstream in;
     string s;
     
     in.open("C:\\test.txt");
     while(!in.eof())
     {
          // read a single word
          in >> s; // or getline(in, s) for an entire line.          
          cout << s << endl;
          // if you were using an ofstream
          // you could write to it with the 
          //  stream insertion operator (<<)
     }

     in.close();

     return 0;
}

[CornedBee]

Are you using VC++7? If so I have a complete config file reader/writer...