passing fstream to a function and searching for a string
 

read in MYDATA (with a space) from cin and find MYDATA in the file, print the line if its there. The line is going to be MYDATA + string.

int main (){

fstream filename;

filename.open(av[1]);

string name;

getline (cin, name);

lookeyLookey (name, filename);

}

void lookeyLookey (string& name, ofstream& filename){

    //how to look for MYDATA in file I have no idea

    if (found)

         cout << name << STRING AFTER MYDATA;



   else 

        cout << name << ": not found";

}

Re: passing fstream to a function and searching for a string
 

you need to put getline() in a loop inside the function lookyLooky() so that it reads all the lines in the file. Then on each loop iteration use the std::string's find() method to search for the desired text.

while( getline(filename, line) )

{

    // check to see if this line contains the desired string

}