C++ question

[The_Doctor]

I think I have solved the problem by using the atoi() thing.

[The_Doctor]

I have got it all working now.

[doc_bean]

How did you do it ? I've been messing around with the getline() thing too, but it's not really convienent for loading in tables or matrices.

[Blodrast]

Use strtol() instead of atoi(). atoi() doesn't detect, or return, certain kind of errors. strtol() does, AND it has more functionality (bases, etc).
And it has its variants, as well, strtod(), strtoll(), strtoul()...

[Kommodus]

Ultimately, I think you'll want to use something other than a text file for this application. A text file will do the job, but as you get more programming knowledge you'll be able to use:

1. A binary file containing records (I think this is what most games do)
2. A database of some kind, such as MySQL

I haven't used C++ in a while (mainly C# these days), so I won't try to explain either, but don't worry: it'll come. Neither is all that hard.

[The_Doctor]

How did you do it ?

The numbers in the text file where like this:
1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10

To extract a number I used:
HighScoresfile.getline(buf1, 1024, "|");

buf1 was a char array with 1024 places.

Then I copied the contents of the array into an int called HS1:
HS1 = atoi(buf1);

Then I repeated the it, only with the buf and HS number increasing until it got to 10.

I have feeling that this is not the best way to do it, but we have not been taught how to do stuff with files yet. It works, so I am pleased with myself.

Ultimately, I think you'll want to use something other than a text file for this application. A text file will do the job, but as you get more programming knowledge you'll be able to use:

1. A binary file containing records (I think this is what most games do)
2. A database of some kind, such as MySQL

We will probably be doing this stuff next year.