wow yes exactly. i should have known about the .id after students[n], but you helped me out big time. if we're keeping track thats twice now.

ok short and sweet hopefully. suppose you have a struct like so


struct SomeName
{
string id;
}


and you read data from a file into the id then you want to search for a specific id...

ok since im a beginner this was explained to me in a different way that was easier to understand. not bashing anyone else's solution, but this fix requires only one line of code. im just posting this...

looks good thank you for your time and quick replies! also learned a little something about cin.getline...

This is the text file. ignore spelling mistakes as I had to make all product names one word.

Chuck's Computer Company
A123
Case
59.99
B234
Motherboard
149.99
C345

tried it. first it wouldnt let me convert from string to char. also even if it did i think cin.getline would ask the user to input data which isnt what we want. it needs to be read from the data file.

ok that helps but i need more than just the product name. i need the product codes and prices to be put into arrays as well thus making 3 arrays.

sort of a noob as i have been doing c++ for only a couple months now. my problem is that i am using a function to pass data from a file into an array then into a .out file. the function im using to...