Yes thank you arkM

The examples I looked at didn't have the fixed manipulator in them. I just found this out at school talking to another student.

Thanks

The problem with using setprecision() as I tried to point out in my original post is that it doesn't work if the number is different.

If I use setprecicion(4) for 16.252 it will work displaying...

Hi, I have read about using sprintf and tried it but can't make sense of how it works.

I have a double with the value 16.525 .
I want to cout only 16.53

I also tried setprecision() and it...

Well I'm trying to learn all methods available for executing directly from a program I write in c++. I was just mentioning the VB way because I'm looking for something similar in c++.

The VB...

Thank you williamhemswort. My internet has been down so I couldn't be online for a while.

I can definitely start there. I'll have to figure out how to translate that into running apps on linux...

Hi, I've been looking around for how to execute another application from a c++ app.

I remember in VB I could have my app launch the browser or other app and could even have it launch command line...

Thanks Ancient Dragon. I got some advice on how to display the decimal representation.
for(size_t i=0;i<memblock.size();++i) std::cout << int(memblock[i]) << std::endl;


Turns out the binary is...

I feel like a dummy. That part with "iter ==" was a common mistake in c++ class that I usually spotted and corrected in other peoples code. Thanks for pointing it out.

It works now but I thought I...

why did unsigned not work and what about the &?

It still gives "error...program has to close" unless I put the ios::ate back in. For some reason, that makes it stay open, but it's not printing out...

Ok I simplified the whole thing. Now I have an error for "while (file.get(&byt)".

error: 16 X:\testingBinaryFileRead\newBinaryRead.cpp no matching function for call to `std::basic_ifstream<char,...

Any good books specifically for this topic?

When you say "while (in.get(&byt);
is "in" the name of the file stream?
So I just need to open a fstream called "in" or whatever and use it that way...

Hi, I am trying to learn how to read the binary of a file, such as a jpg. I got something going here but at run time in windows it says there is an error and the file must close.

I'm not even sure...

I tried this and it is counting and skipping the first two lines but now the second "while" is not using commas as a delimeter. It's reading them into the vector. How can I delimit with '\n' and then...

sorry, I don't know anything about flags or how to use a boolean to check if the line already exists.

I'm not sure how to check for headers. There's nothing special about them. I just added lines...

Hi, I have a readFile() function that reads a csv file into a vector.

The first two lines of the csv are collum headings.

After reading and displaying the file on screen, replacing ","'s with...

I can not find unistd.h anywhere on my system.

So let me see if I understand this.

POSIX is the linux API just like there's a Windows API.

By changing pause to pause2, we have something that...

Thank you John A and Narue.

I never would have thought of something like that since I'm a noob. I don't know enough to decide between windows, linux and the different compilers who is complying...

looks like Naure covered a lot of bases with one class of functions which is great.

I appreciate your comedy ruotine Traicey, but if there is an easier way to be able to flush,empty,ignore (what...

OK thanks a lot Duoas :-)

I was able to incorporate using a vector and am working on adding in a string stream now so I can parse it twice for the purpose of reading and writing csv files from...

Thanks for the advise on safety. Can you tell me what is the deal with

int count = 10;
while (count > 0;

and
count--;

I know what they are but what is there purpose? Why count down from...

yeah sorry, I just figured that out.

Thanks :-)

sorry, comments didn't keep format when I posted.

Hi, I am writing a program to read from a file.

I want to ask the user for the file name to open.

I have tried to use the basic open file code from cplusplus.com and it won't work unless I...

after looking up ambiguous, I'm wondering if this code could or should be rewritten so it can be called as a member function instead of as cin >> pause(). Don't know, just throwing the idea out...

works great for windows. I saved it as ignoreline.h and use it as an include.

Doesn't work in linux. Anyone know why?

Compile time error message:

clearTheStream.cpp: In function ‘int...