All,

Thanks for the great help - it was the null terminator that was causing the problem. Another newbie (me) gets bit by a simple problem, but you guys are great. Thanks again.

Lyndon

Sorry guys - I didn't want to post more code than I needed. I really figured that I must be doing something wrong with the struct declarations that cause a read of one dataField element to overrun...

I am not an expert C/C++ programmer, and am having a bit of a problem on a school assignment. The assignment is to build a text file based database. The program has to read a schema file containing...