Saving a class to disk and then reading it back in

[aewarnick]

I am trying to save my program settings to disk but I cannot cast the data (a char*) to my class called Settings. This is done easily in C#, how do I do it in C++?

[aewarnick]

I have to stop thinking with a C# mentality. I wasn't casting it to a pointer!

[CornedBee]

Direct serialization of class objects in C++ is highly complex and best avoided. Use alternative serialization. Save the data from the Settings class to a .ini, .properties or .xml, anything.

[aewarnick]

Is this ok?

class Settings
{
	public:
	BYTE brStyle0_1_2;
	BYTE spAssignOp0_1_2;
	bool spFuncsAndStructs;
	bool spSemiColins;
	bool spOperators;
	bool replNullWZero;
	bool spCommas;
	Settings()
	{
		this->brStyle0_1_2= 2;
		this->spAssignOp0_1_2= 1;
		this->spFuncsAndStructs= 0;
		this->spSemiColins= 1;
		this->spOperators= 1;
		this->spCommas= 1;
		this->replNullWZero= 1;
	}
};